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Men Quotes by Chaim Potok
- A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.
- 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…
- I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something.…
- He taught them that the purpose of a man is to make his life holy--every aspect of his life: eating, drinking praying, sleeping. God is…
- A man is born into this world with only a tiny spark of goodness in him. The spark is God, it is the soul; the…
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