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• I'm paid about 20 times more than the average Ryanair employee and I think the gap should be wider. I probably work 50 times harder. I think I'm the most underpaid and underappreciated airline boss in Europe.

  Michael O'Leary

  Thinking, Average, Europe

  "Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary says he's underpaid on £1m a year" by Gwyn Topham, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2012.

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• The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can discover itself like a once-blind man unbound. The gaps are the clefts in the rock where you cower to see the back parts of God; they are fissures between mountains and cells the wind lances through, the icy narrowing fiords splitting the cliffs of mystery. Go up into the gaps. If you can find them; they shift and vanish too. Stalk the gaps. Squeak into a gap in the soil, turn, and unlock-more than a maple-universe.

  Annie Dillard

  Home, Men, Cells

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• How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. . . . We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know; God wants us to realize his presence, not in unsolved problems but in those that are solved. . . . God is no stop-gap; he must be recognized as the center of life, not when we are at the end of our resources.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  God, Use, Want

  Letters and papers from Prison, p. 311, 1996.

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• The Patriot Act closed dangerous gaps in America's law enforcement and intelligence capabilities, gaps that terrorists exploited when they attacked us.

  George W. Bush

  Law, America, Enforcement

  "Supreme Court Nominee Visits President and Lawmakers; President Bush Speaks in Baltimore About Renewal of Patriot Act, Supreme Court Nomination". "CNN Live Today", edition.cnn.com. July 20, 2005.

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• Someone asked me what home was and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.

  e. e. cummings

  Stars, Ocean, Flower

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• The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Want, Facts

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• So what will define greatness for your generation? I believe it is to use the knowledge that you have earned here to find ways, not only to connect to computers, but to connect to people; not only to bridge gaps in science, but to bridge gaps between cultures; not only to use numbers and formulas to create, but to use words to lead, and in the process, to close that canyon between ignorance and understanding.

  Carly Fiorina

  Believe, Ignorance, Greatness

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• We don't need fossils - the case for evolution is watertight without them; so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the fossil record as though they were evidence against evolution

  Richard Dawkins

  Needs, Use, Records

  Richard Dawkins (2009). “The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.

  Criss Jami

  People, Denominations, Term

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.27, Criss Jami

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• In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some will topple, knocking down others. Like a gap in the forest when a giant tree falls, new growth will rush in. Gradually, the asphalt jungle will give way to a real one.

  Alan Weisman

  Real, Fall, America

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• I was so absolutely riveted, I felt I was looking into the eyes of the artist. Art just closed the gap of time and space. The 16th century became as real to me as the 20th. It was something magical.

  Betty Churcher

  Art, Real, Eye

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• Prayer is an expression of who we are...We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.

  Thomas Merton

  Prayer, Expression, Who We Are

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• Remember that the biggest gap in the world is between 'I should' and 'I did.'

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  World, Remember, Should

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• By being a racing driver means you are racing with other people. And if you no longer go for a gap that exists, you are no longer a racing driver because we are competing, we are competing to win.

  Ayrton Senna

  Mean, Winning, People

  Interview at the 1990 Australian Grand Prix, November 1990.

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• Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Lying, Twisted, Intention

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Complete Novels of the Hainish Series in One Volume--Rocannon's World; Planet of Exile; City of Illusions”, p.283, Macmillan

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• Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Essence, Meditation

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.20, New World Library

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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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• Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on them. All literary and artistic works, no matter how great, that document the ambivalence of female sexuality they are trained to dismiss as "misogynous." In other words, their minds are being programmed to secede from their bodies ... there is a huge gap between feminist rhetoric and women's actual sex lives, where feminism is of little help except with a certain stratum of deferential, malleable, white middle-class men.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Men, Class

  "No Law in the Arena: a Pagan Theory of Sexuality". Essay in "Vamps and Tramps", a book by Camille Paglia, 1994.

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• Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response

  Sharon Salzberg

  Usual, Events, Mental Health

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• In the big picture, life has a gap in it. It just does. You don't go crazy trying to fill it.

  Sarah Silverman

  Meaningful, Crazy, Trying

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• The gap between the rich and the poor is the most dangerous threat to world peace we have.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, World, Rich

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• Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on or motivated to do so. Our system is quite good at producing reliable theorems that can be solidly backed up. It's just that the reliability does not primarily come from mathematicians formally checking formal arguments; it comes from mathematicians thinking carefully and critically about mathematical ideas.

  William Thurston

  Math, Thinking, Errors

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• The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.

  Clay Shirky

  Real, Doing Nothing

  Clay Shirky (2010). “Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators”, p.17, Penguin

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• It's not a struggle, but sometimes when you're gone for a month or two, you start to miss your friends. I love acting so much that it fills that gap of being sad about not being able to see my friends.

  Willow Shields

  Struggle, Two, Missing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I honestly don't like Photoshop. I think when people Photoshop things, all of a sudden you're like, 'That's not even me anymore.' It takes away the natural beauty of a person. I think Gisele [Bundchen] had just said something like there's no more rawness, like the little quirks. You know, I have a gap in my teeth and sometimes people take it away. But I'm like, 'I love my teeth.' You know, that's me.

  Lily Aldridge

  Thinking, People, Teeth

  "Lily Aldridge On Photoshop: ‘That’s Not Even Me Anymore’" By Rebecca Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2013.

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