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• The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Doors, Lasts

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Weight of Glory”, p.41, Harper Collins

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• A man who lifts his chin in pride will fail to see the chasm at his feet.

  Alison Goodman

  Pride, Men, Feet

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• If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your profession. If you fear the sound of water hurrying through crevices toward unknown and mysterious destinations, do not consider it. Seek out the sunshine. It is a simple prescription. Avoid the darkness.

  Loren Eiseley

  Sunshine, Simple, Night

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.17, Library of America

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• One cannot leap a chasm in two jumps.

  Winston Churchill

  Two, Leap

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• [Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating inessentials. They are inept at those turns of phrase or happy analogy which throw a flying bridge across a chasm of misunderstanding and make contact between mind and mind.

  William Lawrence Bragg

  Writing, Science, Order

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• I want to bring Americans into some experiences they ordinarily would not consider. Experiences in Latin America, people in Latin America, I want to bring them closer to those people, and I know I have to work extra hard at my craft to reach across these increasing chasms, these gaps that exist between different kinds of Americans, and that's the work of the artist, is to create these works that sort of help us understand our time.

  Hector Tobar

  Latin, Artist, America

  Source: www.slate.com

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• At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race.

  Manning Marable

  Heart, Race, America

  Manning Marable (1997). “Black Liberation in Conservative America”, p.200, South End Press

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• The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of a chasm between the economic needs of our consumer society and the requirements of those who bear witness to this epoch. This affects us all, particularly the younger generations of photographers. We must take greater care than ever not to allow ourselves to be separated from the real world and from humanity.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Real, Responsibility

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• Sitting in an automobile was where I first remember understanding how drama works ... Hidden in the back seat of a sedan, I quickly realized how deep the chasm or intense the claustrophobia could be inside your average family car.

  Neil LaBute

  Drama, Average, Car

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• At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.

  Catherine Hicks

  Teacher, Religious, Art

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• I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, spanning the chasm of our anxious striving. Freed from the burden of unbridled desires, we can enjoy what we have, celebrate what we've attained, and appreciate the familiar. For if we can't be happy now, we'll likely not be happy when.

  Philip Gulley

  Gratitude, Bridges, Appreciate

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• My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue!), A horrid chasm disclosed.

  John Phillips

  Time, Winter, Long

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• It looks like the age of the mass is behind us and the age of the individual is upon us. The chasm that now exists between new people and old organizations is destroying economic value and inhibiting the emergence of a new chapter of capitalism aligned with the needs of this new society. The new purpose of commerce is to provide the tools, platforms, and relationships, digital or human, that enable individuals to live the lives they choose.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Organization, Economic Value, People

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• The problem [with genetic research] is, we're just starting down this path, feeling our way in the dark. We have a small lantern in the form of a gene, but the lantern doesn't penetrate more than a couple of hundred feet. We don't know whether we're going to encounter chasms, rock walls or mountain ranges along the way. We don't even know how long the path is.

  Francis Collins

  Couple, Wall, Dark

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• Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and be a road from north to south. We will make a stone wall against the upper river to the west and hold back steamy clouds and rain of Wu peaks. Over tall chasms will be a calm lake, and if the goddess of these mountains is not dead she will marvel at the changed world.

  Mao Zedong

  Wall, Rain, Lakes

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.85, Univ of California Press

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• Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

  Ann Brashares

  Writing, Character, Age

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Jan 25, 2013

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• I came, then, to serve my Church first of all, and the whole world, that is, every person I find along my way. I serve and I will give of myself unto death so that there will be no distance between speaking and doing, so that the people will never again say, 'there is a chasm between us and the leaders' and word spread that the Church is far from her people. I know very well that our people are good and that they want from us today to go to them, to seek them out wherever they are, to search out the lost and return them joyfully to the fold. They hunger and thirst for the Word of God.

  Metropolitan Ephraim Kyriakos

  Spiritual, Distance, People

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• My journey deep into coma, outside this lowly physical realm and into the loftiest dwelling place of the almighty Creator, revealed the indescribably immense chasm between our human knowledge and the awe-inspiring realm of God.

  Eben Alexander

  Journey, Dwelling Place, Almighty

  Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• The more clearly we see the infinite chasm between God's glory and our sinful falling short thereof, the greater will be our appreciation of His grace and love in bridging that gulf to redeem us.

  Dave Hunt

  Appreciation, Fall, Grace

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• Many of us are trying to lead multiple lives: child, mother, wife, lover, star, giving small doses of oxygen to each and imploding under the weight of so many competing roles. The women I have written in Bombshells struggle - sometimes hilariously, sometimes tragically - to bridge the chasm between the wilderness of their inner worlds and the demands of their outer worlds. And humour, in the end, is our saviour.

  Joanna Murray-Smith

  Mother, Stars, Children

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• Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, Men, Wish

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• There is no scarier chasm of darkness than the human mind.

  Roseanne Barr

  Darkness, Mind, Sanity

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• If you demand that everything that happens be something you are adequately prepared for, I wonder if you’ve chosen never to leap in ways that we need you to leap. Once we embrace this chasm, then for the things for which we can never be prepared, we are of course, always prepared.

  Seth Godin

  Needs, Demand, Way

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• What drags down our entire economy is when there's an ever-widening chasm between the ultra-rich and everybody else.

  Barack Obama

  Rich, Economy, Drag

  Barack Obama's Speech at the Associated Press Luncheon, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 3, 2012.

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• In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Bridges, Giving, Solitude

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