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• Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others, but only widen it.

  Mason Cooley

  Trying, Conversation, Talkers

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• The gap between the rich and poor is growing among and within most nations. The political and social effects of unequal location of energy and other mineral resources are acute. Population numbers continue to climb. The global environment shows signs of widespread deterioration. Both natural and social environments are increasingly vulnerable to catastrophic disturbances... There may, however, be a cheering challenge in the possibility that out of its struggle with these realities the human race may move a bit nearer to behaving as if it were indeed one family.

  Gilbert F. White

  Cheer, Struggle, Moving

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• Build gaps in your life. Pauses. Proper pauses.

  Thom Yorke

  Pauses

  "Thom Yorke: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?

  Walker Percy

  Animal, Men, Creatures

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• I like the fact that I have good old-fashioned British teeth with a big gap.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Teeth, Facts, Bigs

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• The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes - that it leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and confines itself to mere effects - this notion has no support in the plain facts. If it could, science would explain the origin of life on earth at once - and there is every reason to believe that it will do so on some not too remote tomorrow. To argue that gaps in knowledge which will confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Ignorance, Origin Of Life

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• I want people of faith on my side, not just voting on election day but by hoisting me up by getting down on your knees and lifting me up in prayer. Those who have a different view of things are already organizing...Will you stand in the gap with those of us who believe there's a God, and a God who is strong? We can stand in the gap together and speak about issues we believe in and we will be victorious.

  Rick Perry

  Strong, Prayer, Believe

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• I just like to talk to people. I don't know how to bridge the gap between getting to know someone and then schmoozing and sort of working contacts and business connections.

  Michael Rady

  Bridges, People, Connections

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• There's definitely a huge gap between the elite and public perceptions on immigration.

  Mark Krikorian

  Perception, Immigration, Huge

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• It is somewhat perplexing that fellow Republicans would attack a popular conservative governor of a very conservative state whose overwhelming re-election proved a conservative philosophy can erase the gender gap and attract a record number of minority voters while remaining true to conservative principles.

  Karen Hughes

  Philosophy, Numbers, Gender Gap

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• I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. Weve got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.

  Quentin Bryce

  Country, Children, Hard Work

  "Stateline" with Eliza Blue, www.abc.net.au. March 22, 2010.

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• I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the things for which we dont always have a name, and the things that are not easy to articulate - the difference between what we think and how we feel.

  Amy Bloom

  Thinking, Names, Differences

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• Do work you love, in which you can excel: The smaller the gap between who you are in your personal life and who you are at work, the happier you will be.

  Lauren Mackler

  Work, Who You Are, Personal Life

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• Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.

  Douglas Coupland

  Perception, Layers, Type

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• There's the space that you soar into, the space that you sometimes break through to, and hang in. A sort of gasp or gap.

  Selima Hill

  Break Through, Space, Sometimes

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• Those opportunity gaps begin early, often at birth. And they compound over time, becoming harder and harder to bridge, making too many young men and women feel like, no matter how hard they try, they may never achieve their dreams.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Men, Opportunity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Disappointment, Women, Love Is

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• Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them - there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves.

  Alison Jackson

  Real, Different, Looks

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• The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart's-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet's journal, writ in fire and tears... Then slow deliverance, with the gaps of years.

  Bayard Taylor

  Heart, Fire, Blood

  Bayard Taylor (1865). “The Poems of Bayard Taylor”, p.13, Boston : Ticknor and Fields

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• This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart.

  Frank Church

  Country, War, Generations

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• In our society competitive capitalism has put family life and working life on a collision course.In Canada statistics show that over 70 percent of the burden of caring for children, the aged, the disabled and the sick falls on women most of whom receive no pay for these very essential tasks.Normally speaking, it may be said that the forces of capitalism, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer and thus increase the gap between them.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Children, Fall, Caring

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• The gaps between the forms worry me. I can never get these spaces right.

  Paula Rego

  Space, Worry, Form

  John McEwen, Paula Rego (1992). “Paula Rego”

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• Hell is out of fashion --institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull. . .

  J. G. Ballard

  Fashion, Skulls, Dungeons

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• There is a wide knowledge gap between us and the developed world in the West and in Asia. Our only choice is to bridge this gap as quickly as possible, because our age is defined by knowledge.

  Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

  Bridges, Choices, Age

  "Dubai ruler in vast charity gift" By Jon Leyne, news.bbc.co.uk. May 19, 2007.

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• Generally, an indie film in the U.K. is put together much like in the states. We got a tax credit. You sell the domestic rights, which can be quite low, but it's enough to push you over the line. And you get a tax credit on top of that, and then you cobble it together with private equity or gap financing and things like that.

  Noel Clarke

  Rights, Together, Credit

  "Interview: Noel Clarke Talks To S&A About ‘Storage 24,’ Entering US Market, UK’s Black Talent Drain, ‘Bad Boys’ UK & More…" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. December 18, 2012.

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