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People have criticized me for seeming to step out of my professional role to become undignifiedly political. I'd say it was belated realization that day care, good schools, health insurance, and nuclear disarmament are even more important aspects of pediatrics than measles vaccine or vitamin D.
— Benjamin Spock
Tags: people, health, me, good

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I think we should bring up our children with much less pressure to compete and get ahead: no comparing one child with another, at home or in school; no grades. Let athletics be primarily for fun, and let them be organized by children and youths themselves.
— Benjamin Spock
Tags: think, school, children, home
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
— Benjamin Spock
Tags: because, who, proud, war
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
— Benjamin Spock
Tags: child, parents, power, parenting
Preschool children are virtuosos of imagination.
— Benjamin Spock
Tags: imagination, children
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.
— Benjamin Spock
Tags: steal, vietnam, against, war
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