I love to dance and I’d love to be saying goodbye to my friends while the band was playing and they were dancing…I want them to remember I was a dancing man in my day.
BENJAMIN SPOCKChildren who grow up getting nutrition from plant foods rather than meats have a tremendous health advantage. They are less likely to develop weight problems, diabetes, high blood pressure and some forms of cancer
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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Boys and girls need chances to be around their father, to be enjoyed by him and if possible to do things with him. Better to play fifteen minutes enjoyably and then say, ‘Now I’m going to read my paper’ than to spend all day at the zoo crossly.
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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Respect children because they’re human beings and they deserve respect, and they’ll grow up to be better people.
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A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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I’ve come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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Children who grow up getting nutrition from plant foods rather than meats have a tremendous health advantage. They are less likely to develop weight problems, diabetes, high blood pressure and some forms of cancer
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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.
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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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It’s up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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It’s not the words but the music that counts.
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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
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What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
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