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Benjamin Spock [1903-1998] American

Rank: 101
Scientist, Pediatrician

Benjamin McLane Spock was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the best-sellers of all time. Its message to mothers is that "you know more than you think you do."

Parenting, War, Age, Anger, Best, Brainy, Happiness, Learning, Marriage, Mom, Power, Trust, Women

Quote	Tags	Rank
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.	Trust	101
Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.	Anger	102
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.	Best, Parenting	103
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?	War	104
All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.	Learning	105
You know more than you think you do.	Brainy	106
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.	Parenting, Power	107
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.	Age, Mom	108
I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.	Marriage	109
I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.	War	110
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.		111
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.	Happiness	112
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.	Parenting	113
Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.		114
Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.		115
In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.		116
When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.	Women	117
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.		118

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