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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?

~Benjamin Spock

Topics: Bring Cause Children Happy Healthy Help Like Myself Numbers Parents Physicians Them Trying Up Use

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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.

~Benjamin Spock

Topics: Against Also Intervention Korea Much Pacifist Steal Supported Very Vietnam War

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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.

~Benjamin Spock

Topics: After Becomes Both Child Childhood He Learning Parent Person Time

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There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

~Benjamin Spock

Topics: Age Child Diseases Mother Only Share Things Two Will Willingly

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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.

~Benjamin Spock

Topics: Nation Vietnam Will Win

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When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

~Benjamin Spock

Topics: Become Competitive Disagreeable Encouraged Many Them Too Women Women Are

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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.

~Benjamin Spock

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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.

~Benjamin Spock

Topics: Anger Angry Any Awful Child Children Dread Every Expressed Him Horse How Inside Might Misbehave More Never Openly Parent Rarely Sense Senses Wondering

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I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.

~Benjamin Spock

Topics: Babies Because Opposed Proud Vietnam War Were Who Youths

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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.

~Benjamin Spock

Topics: Child Confidence Destiny Drive Feeling Gets Gives He Him Important Over Perhaps Something Thinks Who World

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: May 2nd, 1903

Died: March 15th, 1998

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