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• Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find anything.....It is nonsense to say that God fills the gap; he does not fill it, but keeps it empty so that our communion with another may be kept alive, even at the cost of pain.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Pain, Grieving, Trying

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• Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people from all backgrounds and circumstances with the education and skills necessary to become knowledge workers. If we don't, we run the risk of creating an even larger gap between the middle class and the poor. This gap threatens our democracy, our society and the economic future of America.

  Eli Broad

  Running, Work, Issues

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• The Self is not in the realm of thought. The Self is in the gap between our thoughts. The cosmic psyche whispers to us softly in the gap between our thoughts.

  Deepak Chopra

  Self, Consciousness, Cosmic

  Deepak Chopra (2009). “Creating Affluence: The A-to-z Steps to a Richer Life: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Pay attention to the gap - the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the notes of a piano or flute, or the gap between the in-breath and the out-breath. When you pay attention to those gaps, awareness of 'something' becomes - just awareness. The formless dimension of pure conciousness arises from within you and replaces identification with form.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Two, Piano, Space

  Eckhart Tolle (2003). “Stillness Speaks”, p.7, New World Library

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• There is no violent surface indication of the ecstasy which great thinkers alone enjoy. There is nothing dramatic about it, but there is some subtle light in the eye of the inspired one, or some even more subtle quiet emanation which surrounds the inspired thinker, which tells you that you are in the presence of one who has bridged the gap which separates the mundane world from the world of spirit.

  Walter Russell

  Eye, Light, Secret

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• In considering God's power, we must not look for a God of the Gaps, a god who is called in for those phenomena for which there is yet no scientific explanation.

  Nevill Francis Mott

  God, Science, Looks

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• We meditate alone but live our lives with other people; a gap is inevitable. If our path is to lead to less suffering, nd much of our suffering is with other people, then perhaps we need to reexamine our sole commitment to these individual practices... As our individual pracitce deepens, it may yiled true ease. But whether we practice meditation in seclusion or independently alongside other meditators at a meditation group or retreat, individual meditation approaches the confusion and pain of our relational lives only indirectly.

  Greg Kramer

  Pain, Commitment, Practice

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• The edge of the conflict swayed to and fro, with wild whirlpools and eddies. At times I saw around me more of the enemy than of my own men; gaps opening, swallowing, closing again with sharp convulsive energy. All around, a strange, mingled roar.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  War, Men, Enemy

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• As each brigade emerged from the woods, from 50 to 100 guns opened upon it, tearing great gaps in its ranks; but the heroes pressed on and were shot down by reserves at the guns. It was not war, it was murder.

  Daniel Harvey Hill

  War, Hero, Gun

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• The gap between the two cars is 0.9 of a second, which is less than one second

  Murray Walker

  Two, Car, Racing

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• The scientific approach to the phenomenon of human nature enables us to be ignorant without bieng frightened, and without, therefore, having to invent all sorts of wierd theories to explain away our gaps in knowledge.

  Donald Woods Winnicott

  Ignorant, Human Nature, Theory

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• We think there is a knowledge or practice or surrender is needed that will close an imagined or felt gap, and allow some kind of merging with the truth. This is an idea, a thought that will keep you searching forever for some blissful experience that will last - no experience lasts. Who is watching this? Don't try to imagine it. You will only create another concept an imagined object and a lot frustration. Just be that. - and don't expect it to be wow experience...don't expect it to be anything.

  Mooji

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Frustration

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• It's about people coming to an understanding, a realisation that we must bridge the gap, build bridges and make people aware of what's happening. The award gives me the kind of pride and understanding that most people wouldn't think of. It is strengthening the Yolgnu people, but it's also giving strength to Balanda people who otherwise don't have that kind of understanding.

  Mandawuy Yunupingu

  Leadership, Pride, Thinking

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• Box gap is not a thing. If you need to back up to a mirror and bend over to find out how you look, you are playing to the wrong audience.

  Mike Tyson

  Mirrors, Needs, Looks

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• By this measure (on the gap between Fischer & his contemporaries), I consider him the greatest world champion

  Garry Kasparov

  Champion, World, Chess

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• Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.

  John Berger

  Space, Giving, Normal

  John Berger (2009). “The Shape of a Pocket”, p.176, Vintage

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• Part of a soldier's duty is to fill gaps...one must be willing to be nothing, as something.

  Amy Carmichael

  Soldier, Duty, Willing

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• Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one.

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

  Country, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information.

  Taryn Simon

  Motivation, Inspiration, Archives

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• The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what has been happening within the 'middle classes' - that is, to that ten to fifteen percent of the population of the world-economy who consumed more surplus than they themselves produced. Within this sector there really has been a relatively dramatic flattening of the curve between the very top (less than one percent of the total population) and the truly 'middle' segments, or cadres (the rest of the ten to fifteen percent).

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Curves, Class, Historical

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• Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy, the gap between rich and poor. What do these issues have in common? Politicians, the media, and our so-called leaders lie to us about them. They lie about the cause. They lie about the effect. They lie about the solutions.

  Larry Elder

  Lying, School, Issues

  Larry Elder (2001). “The Ten Things You Can't Say In America”, p.7, St. Martin's Griffin

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• We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between what brute labor on the soil can accomplish and what advanced technology makes possible today - and will make possible tomorrow.

  Alvin Toffler

  Technology, People, Village

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• Young girls are obsessed with having a thigh gap. I blame the impossible body standards set by Spongebob.

  Stephen Colbert

  Girl, Standards Set, Perfect

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• I have never been afraid to tackle tough or controversial issues, but I have always done it with the intent to do what I was elected to do, and that is represent the interests of my constituents, the working people of Hawaii. I feel that we are facing some of the most difficult issues in recent history with regard to food security, a widening income gap, and the rapidly increasing rise of the cost of living in our State. I know that the office of Lieutenant Governor can do more to address these issues.

  Clayton Hee

  Cost Of Living, Issues, People

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• If I could change my appearance, I would have the gap between my front teeth put back in.

  Thandie Newton

  Teeth, Appearance, If I Could

  "What I see in the mirror" by Thandie Newton, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2011.

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