Benjamin Spock Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 2, 1903 - March 15, 1998

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I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.

Jim Clyburn

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As far as I know, the guys at Pixar are opposed to a Monsters, Inc. sequel.

John Goodman

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One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.

Andrew Young

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There comes the time at every Passover seder when someone will open a door to let in the prophet Elijah. At that moment, something like a spell invariably descends over the celebrants, and everyone stares into the doorway, trying to make out the quiet movements of the prophet as he glides his way in and takes the empty seat among us.

Andre Aciman

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Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

John Sladek

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I someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of releasing music.

Sturgill Simpson

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I just want to go out there and do what I can do, contribute in the ways that I can. Whether I get exposure or not, it's about winning.

Steven Hill

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I try to force myself to travel light; otherwise, I tend to bring a million things that I end up never using!

Sigrid Agren

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The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them.

Robbie Coltrane

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We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.

Luc de Clapiers

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I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.

Lorrie Moore

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Knowing my circumstances from which I came and the path I was headed down, to be where I am, I'm blessed.

Josh Gordon

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