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• One felt that the mountains are not completed. The builders are still at work. Stones come rolling and jumping from the upper scaffolding and often from the chasms one hears the thundering as the gods of the mountains change their minds.

  J. E. H. MacDonald

  Nature, Jumping, Mind

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• That pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere ... the firmest substance of human happiness is but a thin crust spread over it, with just reality enough to bear up the illusive stage-scenery amid which we tread. It needs no earthquake to open the chasm.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Happiness, Lying, Reality

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.804, e-artnow

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• An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge the chasms between itself and eminent success by the most faithful and minute performances of duty.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Ambition, Bridges, Faithful

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.64

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• Thou demandest what is love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves, when we find within our own thoughts the chasm of an insufficient void, and seek to awaken in all things that are, a community with what we experience within ourselves.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Powerful, Community

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1817, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing can prepare you for the yawning chasm of time that passes in Canada before the healthcare system actually does any healthcare.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Yawning, Doe, Canada

  Jeremy Clarkson (2010). “How Hard Can It Be?: The World According to Clarkson”, p.215, Penguin UK

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• As the United States continues its slow but steady recovery from the depths of the financial crisis, nobody actually wants a massive austerity package to shock the economy back into recession, and so the odds have always been high that the game of budgetary chicken will stop short of disaster. Looming past the cliff, however, is a deep chasm that poses a much greater challenge -- the retooling of the country's economy, society, and government necessary for the United States to perform effectively in the twenty-first century.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Country, Recovery, Past

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• In Mexico the gods ruled, the priests interpreted and interposed, and the people obeyed.In Spain, the priests ruled, the king interpreted and interposed, and the gods obeyed. A nuance in an ideological difference is a wide chasm.

  Richard Condon

  Kings, Differences, People

  1961 A Talent for Loving, bk.1, ch.6.

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• Perhaps there is no other way of reaching some understanding of being than through art? Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope. To say this is not to mystify the process of writing but to make an image out of the intense inner concentration the writer must have to cross the chasms of the aleatory and make them the word's own, as an explorer plants a flag.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Art, Writing, Understanding

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Living in Hope and History”, p.199, A&C Black

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• The great chasm between the thing I say, and the thing I would say, would be quite dispiriting to me, in spite even of such kindnesses as yours, if the desire did not master the despondency.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Kindness, Desire, Would Be

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.17, The Floating Press

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• If the experience of leadership is like being at the edge of an unfamiliar chasm, the act of leadership is building a bridge across that chasm.

  Kevin Cashman

  Leadership, Bridges, Building

  Kevin Cashman (2008). “Leadership from the Inside Out: Becoming a Leader for Life”, p.15, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.

  B. W. Powe

  Concern, Seems

  "Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and the Rose". Book by B. W. Powe, 2007.

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• Unfortunately, being physically equipped to hear has little to do with the actual predilection to listen. Sharing a common tongue does not ensure earnest or successful communication. Missed connections occur among hearing people all the time, splitting open countless minor chasms and yawning gulches, fissures that no vaccine or technilogical advance will ever be able to mend or prevent. That task will always fail to us.

  Leah Hager Cohen

  Communication, Successful, Yawning

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• The more one endeavors to sound the depths of his ignorance the deeper the chasm appears.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Ignorance, Sound, Depth

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Thinking, Mad, Curtains

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• The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

  Natasha Leggero

  Thinking, Interesting, Becoming

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• The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn't just a gap between us, but a whole chasm of modernity.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Europe, America, Rift

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.73, Verso

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• There are obvious places in which government can narrow the chasm between haves and have-nots. One is the public schools, which have been seen as the great leveler, the authentic melting pot. That, today, is nonsense. In his scathing study of the nation's public school system entitled "Savage Inequalities," Jonathan Kozol made manifest the truth: that we have a system that discriminates against the poor in everything from class size to curriculum.

  Anna Quindlen

  Education, School, Class

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• A railroad may have to be carried over a gorge or arroya. Obviously it does not need an Engineer to point out that this may be done by filling the chasm with earth, but only a Bridge Engineer is competent to determine whether it is cheaper to do this or to bridge it, and to design the bridge which will safely and most cheaply serve.

  Henry R. Towne

  Bridges, Design, Doe

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• When a miner looks at the rope that is to lower him into the deep mine, he may coolly say, "I have faith in that rope as well made and strong." But when he lays hold of it, and swings down by it into the tremendous chasm, then he is believing on the rope. Then he is trusting himself to the rope. It is not a mere opinion - it is an act. The miner lets go of every thing else, and bears his whole weight on those well braided strands of hemp. Now that is faith.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Letting Go, Strong, Believe

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 225, 1895.

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• May your rivers flow without end... down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs... where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you-beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.

  Edward Abbey

  Beautiful, Dream, Wall

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• The Irish sea is a chasm, and it just depends who's been holding the whip for 800 years and who's been under it for 800 years.

  Noam Chomsky

  Years, Sea, Whips

  "Noam Chomsky: Rebel Without a Pause". Documentary, War, 2003.

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• You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It's the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter for a few minutes while she runs out to the post office. It's the chasm between being invited to a colleague's wedding with your same-sex partner and being able to slow-dance without the other guests whispering.

  Jodi Picoult

  Daughter, Running, Sex

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.

  Irving Stone

  Motivation, Writing, Heart

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• ...there are two (inter alia) two ways of ruining a society - namely, letting the market "be the sole director of the fate of human beings," and allowing technology  to permeate every aspect of our lives.  In the United States, both of these developments have converged, creating a huge chasm between rich and poor and pushing us over the edge into a kind of antisociety...  While these developments have been widely hailed as the dawn of a golden age, the likelihood is that they actually amount to a death knell, the beginning of the end of the American empire.

  Morris Berman

  Fate, Technology, Two

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• Explain to me again the difference between superstitious beliefs or pagan incantations, and scientific ones. Be braver - you cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps.

  David Lloyd George

  Two, Differences, Belief

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