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• The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference. . . .

  Audre Lorde

  Heterosexuality Is, World, Serious

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.111, Crossing Press

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• In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.

  Wendy Cope

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Country, Gender Gap, World

  "UN Women Head Michelle Bachelet: ‘Gender Equality Is Good Business’". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.

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• In geometry I find certain imperfections which I hold to be the reason why this science, apart from transition into analytics, can as yet make no advance from that state in which it came to us from Euclid.
  As belonging to these imperfections, I consider the obscurity in the fundamental concepts of the geometrical magnitudes and in the manner and method of representing the measuring of these magnitudes, and finally the momentous gap in the theory of parallels, to fill which all efforts of mathematicians have so far been in vain.

  Nikolai Lobachevsky

  Imperfection, Effort, Transition

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• Many of my friends and family are scratching it out somewhere decidedly south of the ever widening gap between the haves and have nots, looking at losing their homes, colleges they can't afford and healthcare they can't avail themselves of.

  Don Cheadle

  Home, College, Family And Friends

  "Don Cheadle Says President Obama Should Have Been More ‘Gangster,’ Clarifies Comments". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 30, 2011.

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• I was using Twitter a lot on my phone, and was realising there was a massive gap between the link on the tweet and the full story. If you could come up with a summary layer to show in Twitter, that would be awesome.

  Nick D'Aloisio

  Phones, Would Be, Stories

  "Summly creator Nick D'Aloisio: 'I try to maintain a level of humbleness'". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2013.

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• Nothing highlights better the continuing gap between rhetoric and substance in British financial services than the failure of providers here to emulate Jack Bogle's index fund success in the United States. Every professional in the City knows that index funds should be core building blocks in any long-term investor's portfolio. Since 1976, the Vanguard index funds has produced a compound annual return of 12 percent, better than three-quarters of its peer group.

  Jonathan Davis

  Block, Cities, Long

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• The human condition can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all experiences are of the past, all decisions are about the future. It is the great task of human knowledge to bridge this gap and to find those patterns in the past which can be projected into the future as realistic images.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Past, Bridges, Decision

  Foreword of "The image of the future" by Fred Polak, (p. V), 1972.

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• Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Technology, Years, May

  "Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen warns of 'two-tier' force" by Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2011.

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• In order that a "self" may exist there must be some continuity of mental experiences and, particularly, continuity bridging gaps of unconsciousness. For example, the continuity of our "self" is resumed after sleep, anaesthesia, and the temporary amnesias of concussion and convulsions.

  John Eccles

  Sleep, Self, Order

  "Eccles' Model of the Self Controlling Its Brain: The Irrelevance of Dualist-Interactionism" by Donald E. Watson and Bernard O. Williams, 2003.

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• The Americans provide still more advanced military assets and equipment; the Europeans are lagging behind. And eventually it will be difficult to co-operate even if you had the political will to co-operate because of the technological gap.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Military, Political Will, Assets

  "Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen warns of 'two-tier' force" by Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2011.

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• Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between top executives and shop floor laborers; between 'Master of the Universe' financiers and pretty much everyone else.

  Steven Rattner

  Eye, Pay Gap, Growing

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• I know the difference between venture capital[ism] and vulture capitalism. Venture capitalism is a good thing, comes in, gives that gap funding to help these companies get off and get started creating jobs, and work. But Mitt Romney and Bain Capital were involved with what I call vulture capitalism. And they walked into Gaffney and took over that photo album company for no other reason than to basically pick the bones clean. And those people lost their jobs.

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Differences, Creating

  "Perry dismisses Mitt and N.H." by Jake Sherman, www.politico.com. January 10, 2012.

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• At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.

  Rita Levi-Montalcini

  Father, Latin, School

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• The gap between the rich and the poor is wider in the United States than it is in any of the other industrialized nations.

  Gerald Celente

  United States, Rich, Poor

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• We can glut ourselves with how-to-raise children information . . . strive to become more mature and aware but none of this will spare us from the . . . inevitability that some of the time we are going to fail our children. Because there is a big gap between knowing and doing. Because mature, aware people are imperfect too. Or because some current event in our life may so absorb or depress us that when our children need us we cannot come through.

  Judith Viorst

  Depressing, Children, Knowing

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• The investment banks should either choose to be regulated as banks or should arrange to conduct their affairs to not require the stop-gap support of the Federal Reserve.

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  Support, Affair, Investment

  "A Wish List for Fixing Wall Street" by Andrew Ross Sorkin, www.nytimes.com. May 13, 2008.

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• Does religion fill a much needed gap? It is often said that there is a God-shaped gap in the brain which needs to be filled: we have a psychological need for God -- imaginary friend, father, big brother, confessor, confidant -- and the need has to be satisfied whether God really exists or not. But could it be that God clutters up a gap that we'd be better off filling with something else? Science, perhaps? Art? Human friendship? Humanism? Love of this life in the real world, giving no credence to other lives beyond the grave?

  Richard Dawkins

  Art, Brother, Father

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• It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

  Cancer, Thinking, Issues

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• Whether you face reality head on and make a life change, or deny your responsibility, you've made a choice. The way I see it you choose either a life of abundant strength and energy, or you're living in the gap, far beneath the quality of life you could be enjoying.

  Shawn Phillips

  Life Changing, Responsibility, Reality

  Shawn Phillips (2008). “Strength for Life: The Fitness Plan for the Rest of Your Life”, p.10, Ballantine Books

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• For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be artistically frustrating; on the contrary, it was an extension of my art.

  Sonia Delaunay

  Art, Painting, Frustrating

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• Perhaps the place to start looking for a credibility gap is not in the offices of the Government in Washington but in the studios of the networks in New York!

  Spiro T. Agnew

  New York, Government, Office

  Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “Frankly speaking: a collection of extraordinary speeches”

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• The great question for our time is, how to make sure that the continuing scientific revolution brings benefits to everybody rather than widening the gap between rich and poor. To lift up poor countries, and poor people in rich countries, from poverty, to give them a chance of a decent life, technology is not enough. Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

  Freeman Dyson

  Country, Technology, Rich Countries

  "Progress In Religion". Freeman Dyson's Acceptance Speech for the Templeton Prize at the Washington National Cathedral, www.edge.org. May 16, 2000.

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• I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.

  George MacDonald

  Immortality, Middle

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.4585, e-artnow

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• Changes occur because there’s a gap between what is and what should be.

  Craig McCaw

  Should

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