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A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
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
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University Teacher
New Haven
Connecticut
Benjamin McLane Spock
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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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Parental trust is extremely important in the guidance of adolescent children as they get further and further away from the direct supervision of their parents and teachers. I don't mean that trust without clear guidance is enough, but guidance without trust is worthless.
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Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.
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To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.
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