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Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.
Benjamin Spock
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Benjamin Spock
Age: 94 †
Born: 1903
Born: May 2
Died: 1998
Died: March 15
Military Officer
Pedagogue
Pediatrician
Physician
Politician
Psychiatrist
Psychologist
Rower
University Teacher
New Haven
Connecticut
Benjamin McLane Spock
Dr. Spock
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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.
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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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It's an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States... I'm free to thwart and torment the authorities - that is to say, I can get out my hostilities - because I'm protected in my conscience by the knowledge that what I'm doing is morally right. I've never been so relaxed. I've never been so happy.
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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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