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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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James Dobson
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: April 21
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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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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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I cannot, and will not, vote for Senator John McCain, as a matter of conscience.
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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.
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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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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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Respect is intended to operate on a two-way street.
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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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Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay marriage in New York City or at least the civil unions in New York City. He's called a champion of gay rights. Rudy is opposed to school choice. He's in favor of open borders.
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Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.
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There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and stress at some point.
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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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Real crying usually lasts two minutes or less, but may continue for five. After that point, the child is merely complaining... I would require him to stop the protest crying, usually by offering him a little more of whatever caused the original tears.
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Can't you see the Creator of the universe, who understands every secret, every mystery, sitting patiently and listening to a four-year-old talk to Him? That's a beautiful image of a father.
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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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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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If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.
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My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.
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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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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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