Gaps Quotes - Page 30

• It is easier to bridge the oceans that lie between continents than it is to bridge the gap between individuals or the peoples.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Ocean, Bridges

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• To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

  Tavis Smiley

  America, Multicultural, Clear

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• I know more Australian people than I know New Zealand persons. I feel like there's a real gap in my education.

  Cameron Esposito

  Real, People, Feels

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator—computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress from social totality, and inscribed there his dream of permanent revolution. This dream, therefore, is itself action, reality, and an effective menace to all established order; it renders possible what it dreams about.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Dream, Reality, Order

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• I used to think that when I set out that doing the research was enough! But then the gaps would emerge that could only be filled by the imagination. And imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

  Hilary Mantel

  Procrastination, Thinking, Imagination

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• Today, the gap between productivity and compensation for the typical worker is larger than at any time since World War II.

  David Rolf

  War, Today, Typical

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Book, Media, Bridges

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• I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one of many.

  Ben Fountain

  Littles, Ashamed, Embarrassed

  "Interview with Ben Fountain, Author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2012.

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• Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Past, Secular Society, Government

  "Celebrating Faith, Altruism And Our Modern Community" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2011.

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• I know that gaps can be closed. And they can be closed substantially, more than I think we believe.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Thinking, Knows

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• To me the question right now is: How do I close that first three-quarters of the achievement gap, education gap, wealth gap? What gives me the best chance to do that? And I'm pretty darn sure that if America is a just society and treating people well right now, irrespective of past wrongs, that I'm going to close a big chunk of that gap. I've seen it.

  Barack Obama

  Past, America, Giving

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.

  Jon Meacham

  Country, Wall, America

  "Show Them the Money" by Jon Meacham, ideas.time.com. October 12, 2011.

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• Take that one thing you don't like about yourself and more often than not that's the one thing that makes you more special. Whether it's that gap in your teeth, or that mole you never liked, or your skin color.

  Shay Mitchell

  Skin Color, Special, Skins

  "Shay Mitchell Exclusive Interview". www.seventeen.com. June 26, 2012.

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• Does that mean that all vestiges of past discrimination would be eliminated, that the income gap or the wealth gap or the education gap [between Afro-Americans and white] would be erased in five years or 10 years? Probably not, and so this is obviously a discussion we've had before when you talk about something like reparations.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Past, Years

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• If you want to get at African American poverty, the income gap, wealth gap, achievement gap, that the most important thing is to make sure that the society as a whole does right by people who are poor, are working class, are aspiring to a better life for their kids.

  Barack Obama

  Kids, Class, People

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family.

  Jennifer Ehle

  Years, Parent, Twenties

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• There is a cost that comes with moving schools so often and it's not what I want for my son when he gets older, but it did make me very adaptable. I became aware of what was missing from the social structure of each class that I arrived in, and made sure to fill that gap.

  Jennifer Ehle

  Moving, School, Son

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• There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.

  Sherman Alexie

  Thinking, Adults, Literature

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• The economy is better than the one President [Barack] Obama inherited, and unemployment is lower, but the unemployment rate gap remains large.

  Julianne Malveaux

  President, Unemployment, Economy

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which lie ahead in closing the gap.

  Kevin Rudd

  Lying, Apology, Challenges

  "Late Night Live" with Phillip Adams, www.abc.net.au. August 4, 2010.

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• He wanted to care, he wanted to care so badly, but there was this gap between what he felt and what he wanted to feel, a space where something important had been carved out.

  V. E. Schwab

  Life, Space, Important

  V. E. Schwab (2014). “Vicious”, p.220, Titan Books

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• Don't think about what you want, think about what the world needs, and strive to fill that gap. Success is a game of inches.

  Justine Musk

  Thinking, Games, Needs

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• We are developing in the United States a huge underclass of unwanted people, many of them the descendants of the exploitation of the South American and Latin American countries by American piratical capitalism. Not all capitalism is piratical, but some of it certainly is. And we have a fantastic gap beginning to exist between rich and poor.

  Benedict Groeschel

  Country, Latin, People

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• There is an increasing gap between academic research and business application. Sometimes the incentives for success in the academic world are not consistent with what it takes to run a company.

  Dave Ulrich

  Running, Research, World

  "Dave and Wendy Ulrich: An interview by Bob Morris". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. August 19, 2011.

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• Look for new enabling technologies that create a wide gap between how things have been done and how they can be done.

  Aaron Levie

  Technology, Looks, Done

  "Lecture 12 - Building for the Enterprise". Youtube video, Aaron Levie's lecture at a Stanford University, www.youtube.com. October 30, 2014.

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