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Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Benjamin Spock / Pediatrician
Happiness
Happy
Inspirational
Positive
Fulfilled
Feel
Doing
By-Product
Makes
Mostly
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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Mom
Mother
Mothers Day
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It's not the words but the music that counts.
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Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Common
Common Sense
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Preschool children are virtuosos of imagination.
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Imagination
Preschool
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I was so afraid of being bad and being caught at it.
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Being Bad
Caught
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Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
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Daughter
Encouraging
Encouragement
Family
Journey
Knowledge
Kids
Positive
Parenting
Trust
Yourself
Think
More
You
Than
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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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Nations
Vietnam
Winning
Exterminate
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How to fold a diaper depends on the size of the baby and the diaper.
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Baby
Diapers
Size
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It's up to each of us to help create a better world for our children.
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Children
Helping
World
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The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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Parenting
Dad
Children
Funny Parent
Steering
Supplies
Child
Parents
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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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Grandchildren
Grandparent
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The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.
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May
Quiet
Teamwork
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If I could make only one wish for a child, I'd wish him the quality of lovingness.
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Quality
Children
Wish
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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.
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Women
Be Encouraged
Disagreeable
Women Are
Too
Competitive
Encouraged
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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
Benjamin Spock / Pediatrician
War
Baby
Vietnam
Babies
Opposed
Youths
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Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
Benjamin Spock / Pediatrician
Captain Kirk
Choices
Creativity
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Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
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Time
Essence
Mean
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We all end up at least somewhat like our parents, especially in the way we deal with our children.
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Somewhat
Children Parents Way
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On the average, older parents are more flexible, tolerant, understanding, and happy in child care.
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Average
Child Care
Flexible
Tolerant
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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.
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Funny
Kids
Parenting
Age
Mom
Children
Mother
Share
Two
Child
Diseases
Willingly
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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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Problem
Realization
Spiritual
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Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.
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Opportunity
Children
Parent
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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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Parenting
Mom
Baby
Mother
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The main source of good discipline is growing up in a loving family, being loved and learning to love in return.
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Discipline
Growing Up
Return
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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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Respect
Children
Growing Up
People
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Don't worry about trying to do a perfect job. There is no perfect job. There is no one way of raising your children.
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Jobs
Children
Perfect
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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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Satisfaction
Selfish
Successful
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As a peace activist, I am dismayed by the encouragement of aggressiveness and violence by television, movies, and war toys.
Benjamin Spock / Pediatrician
Encouragement
Movies
War
Activist
Aggressiveness
Dismayed
Television
Toys
Violence
War Peace I Am
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Biologically and temperamentally... women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.
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Home
Children
Husband
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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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Believe
Children
Country
Principal
Raised
Serve
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A surprising number of scientific advances have been made and masterpieces of art created by individuals just on the threshold of adulthood.
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Surprising
Threshold
Advances
Masterpieces
Scientific
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The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships.
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Long
People
Strong
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Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.
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Common
Common Sense
Experts
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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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Brutal
Class
Feels
Ideas
No Idea
Police
Racism
Rude
Suspicious
Belligerent
Subjected
Whites
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Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.
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Believe
Children
People
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Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.
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Confidence
Smile
Wisdom
Children
Destiny
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Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.
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Confidence
Perhaps
Thinks
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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
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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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Learning
Parenting
Baby
Childhood
Children
Parent
Reliving
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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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War
Intervention
Korea
Pacifist
Vietnam
Steal
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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 Spock / Pediatrician
Dance
Men
Dancing
Goodbye
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What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
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Peace
War
Children
Numbers
Physicians
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A boy, by the age of 3 years, senses that his destiny is to be a man, so he watches his father particularly-his interests, manner, speech, pleasures, his attitude toward work.
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Attitude
Boys
Father
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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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Children
Parent
Punishment
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I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.
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Women
Occupation
Trying
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I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
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Love
Marriage
Dignity
Harmony
Husband
Inspiration
Joy
Maturity
Pleasure
Spouse
Creates
Measure
Provides
Surest
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Sex education, including its spiritual aspects, should be part of a broad health and moral education from kindergarten through grade twelve, ideally carried out harmoniously by parents and teachers.
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Teacher
Sex
Spiritual
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The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.
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Jobs
Parenting
Children
Long
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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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Cancer
Children
Growing Up
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