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Benjamin Spock Quotes: 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.
         

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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Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.



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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.



What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.



Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.

Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.



The main source of good discipline is growing up in a loving family, being loved and learning to love in return.

The main source of good discipline is growing up in a loving family, being loved and learning to love in return.



A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.

A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.



The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.



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.

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.



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.

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.



Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.





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Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?"All the time.




Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.

Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.



Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.



Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.



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Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.



I’m not interested in being polite. It’s false.

I’m not interested in being polite. It’s false.



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It is not what people do when they work, but what they do when they don't work that causes all their troubles.




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