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Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.

James Dobson

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James Dobson
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: April 21
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Businessperson
Non-Fiction Writer
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Shreveport
Louisiana
James Clayton Jim Dobson
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Children represent God's most generous gift to us.
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We Americans are living a lifestyle of exhaustion. We don't have time for ourselves, much less for each other and our children.
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Respect is intended to operate on a two-way street.
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Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses.
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Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.
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When you let people put you up on a pedestal, you step one step in any direction, and you're going to go down.
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When these parenting years have passed, something precious will have flickered and gone out of my life. Thus, I am resolved to enjoy every day that remains in this fathering era.
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Behavior runs in deep channels that were cut during early childhood, and it is very difficult to alter them. In order to change a deeply ingrained pattern, you have to build a sturdy dam, dig another canal and reroute the river in the new direction. That effort is rarely successful over the long haul.
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We are so busy giving our children what we never had that we forget to give them what we did have.
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Touching Hearts, Changing Lives.
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A disturbing prospect looms before us as Americans consider the possibility of a second term for President Barack Obama. Millions of conservatives who revere the Constitution, with its guarantees of freedom and limited government, have watched with alarm as the campaign season has unfolded.
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God does not need our money. But you and I need the experience of giving it
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Homosexuals can be, you know, committed to each other. And they have freedom to behave in the ways that they do, but they cannot be a family. They cannot be married. I mean, virtually every culture in the history of the world has considered marriage to be between one woman and one man.
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There is nothing more important than parents passing on a generational legacy of faith and values to their children.
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Tell me why it is that a toddler will gag over a perfectly wonderful breakfast of ham, eggs, biscuits, juice, and jelly. But then he will enthusiastically drink the dog's water and play in the toilet. Truly, he is his mother's greatest challenge... and her most inexpressible joy.
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The United States has been from the beginning greatly influenced and primarily influenced by the Judeo-Christian system of values.
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Show me a husband who keeps his thoughts to himself, and I will show you a frustrated wife.
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If you let a child know that you think he is lazy, sloppy, untruthful, unpleasant, and thoughtless, he'll probably prove you are right. Obviously, it is much better to make him stretch to reach a positive image than stoop to match one at ground level.
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.
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