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Respect is intended to operate on a two-way street.

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James Dobson
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: April 21
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Businessperson
Non-Fiction Writer
Politician
Psychologist
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Shreveport
Louisiana
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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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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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I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.
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The Lord doesn't always remove the sources of stress in our lives...but He's always there and cares for us. We can feel His arms around us on the darkest night.
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Marriage succeeds only as lifetime commitment with no escape clauses.
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If homes are going to survive, it will be because husbands and fathers again place their families at the highest level on their system of priorities.
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Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous.
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One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have every detail of anatomy, physiology and condom usage made explicit.
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God's Heart is especially tender toward the downtrodden and the defeated. He knows your name and He has seen every tear you have shed.
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One of the first things you and your fiance need to develop is a meaningful prayer life even before the wedding. My wife, Shirley, and I did that, and the time we have spent on our knees has been the stabilizing factor throughout nearly forty years of marriage.
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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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Conceit is a weird disease - it makes everybody sick except the guy who has it.
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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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God does not need our money. But you and I need the experience of giving it
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Touching Hearts, Changing Lives.
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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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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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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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Should Sen. McCain capture the nomination as many assume, I believe this general election will offer the worst choices for President in my lifetime. I certainly can't vote for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama based on their virulently anti-family policy positions.
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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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