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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.

Benjamin Spock

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that’s in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.
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Children Fear Horse
It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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Count Music
People have said, “You’ve turned your back on pediatrics.” I said, “No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics.”
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People Realizing Said
Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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Grandchildren Grandparent
If I could make only one wish for a child, I’d wish him the quality of lovingness.
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Children Quality Wish
I really learned it all from mothers.
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Day Mom Mother
All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
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Baby Children Learning
I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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Problem Realization Spiritual
I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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Being Bad Caught
It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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Children Helping World
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Nation Vietnam Winning
Don’t be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Common Sense
Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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Essence Mean Time
Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.
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Children Parent Punishment
I’m not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.
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Country Intervention War
A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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Satisfaction Selfish Successful

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