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Quote by Chaim Potok
I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divin

I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage. – Chaim Potok

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But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet. – Chaim Potok

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Travel
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Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a universal without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere. – Chaim Potok

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Beauty
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A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare – let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel. – Chaim Potok

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alone
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Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news. – John le Carre

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relationship

Comic timing… is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are. – Colleen Haskell

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relationship

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization. – Harold S. Geneen

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relationship

Idleness does drive me crazy, but Id rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it. – Karen Allen

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You have to be positive, and Im not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life. – Sheryl Swoopes

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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. – Samuel Johnson

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Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I dont think I could eat eight. – Yogi Berra

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The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people theyre trying to keep out. – Calvin Trillin

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