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• Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.

  Zach Wamp

  Women, Sacrifice, Retention

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• Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger

  Eckhart Tolle

  Light, Mind, Stronger

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.21, New World Library

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• The gap is not between knowing it and living it, it's between knowing it and living it consistently. You know, we've all had moments when we got it right. Most of us have moments when we get it right every day. The trouble is getting it right when a curve-ball comes at us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Curves, Knowing, Balls

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled.

  Paulo Coelho

  Bridges, Storytelling

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. March, 2008.

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• It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Art Is

  Wilfried Dörstel, Marcel Duchamp (1989). “Augenpunkt, Lichtquelle und Scheidewand: die symbolische Form im Werk Marcel Duchamps : unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Witzzeichnungen von 1907 bis 1910 und der Radierungen von 1967/68”

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• In the gap between who we wish one day to be
  and who we are at present,
  must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation.

  Alain de Botton

  Pain, Envy, Anxiety

  Alain de Botton (2001). “The Consolations of Philosophy”, p.202, Penguin UK

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• My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dollsone of those.

  Hailee Steinfeld

  Girl, Jobs, Soda Pop

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The gap between compassion and surrender is love’s darkest, deepest region.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Compassion, Surrender, Regions

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.140, Faber & Faber

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• The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

  Helene D. Gayle

  Differences, Becoming, Income

  "Widening Income Disparities" by Helene D. Gayle, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 21, 2014.

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• I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.

  Christopher Meloni

  Funny, War, Thinking

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• The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Men, Earning, Bridging The Gap

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• I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.

  Ringo Starr

  Break Up, War, Mean

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• I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

  Margaret Spellings

  Teacher, Kids, Thinking

  "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson and Erik W. Robelen, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.

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• I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.

  Margaret Spellings

  Mean, Achievement, Educator

  "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson and Erik W. Robelen, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.

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• Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

  Herman Wouk

  Reality, Wish, Illusion

  Herman Wouk (1988). “War and Remembrance”, Pocket

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• I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.

  Barney Frank

  Children, Thinking, People

  "Beantown Brawl". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. July 20, 2005.

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• The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.

  Gaston Caperton

  Country, School, Bridging The Gap

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• I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

  Ella Maillart

  Depressing, Ambition, Weakness

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• The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

  George Orwell

  Truth, Real, Political Language

  "Politics and the English Language" (1946)

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• So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage.

  Margaret Whiting

  Music, Education, Teacher

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• In the East there is a gap between the top of the wall and the underside of the roof; the wall does not act as a support. Instead, it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Wall, Chinese, East

  "The House: Its Origins and Evolution".

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• I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up.

  Joss Stone

  Writing, Advertising, Take Time

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• We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

  Major Owens

  Educational, Technology, Quality

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• Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Power, Men, Enemy Of Progress

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• One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security.

  Anna Lindh

  Country, Effort, Needs

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