Gaps Quotes - Page 9

• The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower

  Michael Longley

  Enormous, Good Poetry, Poetry Is

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• We are all born with a grab bag of gifts and gaps. Identify your true talents, then find out how to use them to make money.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Wisdom, Bags, Use

  Bill O'Reilly (2002). “The O'Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad, and the Completely Ridiculous in American Life”, p.76, Three Rivers Press

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• Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.

  Peter Zumthor

  Past, Flow

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• The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values.

  Whitney M. Young

  Practice, Democratic Ideals, America

  Whitney M. Young (1964). “To be equal”

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• If there's more that you can do, then do it. If there's not more that you can do, then be content with what you're doing. But if there is despair, the despair can only be that you can do more. Because when you're doing as much as you can do, you will not feel despair. Because despair is the gap between what you could be doing and what you are doing.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Despair, Feels, Can Do

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• A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.

  Alberto Manguel

  Library, Growing, Association

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• I've always liked doubles. When you scald the ball on a line to the gap, I think that's about as close to a perfect swing as you can get.

  Lance Berkman

  Thinking, Swings, Perfect

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• He knows that after him everything will continue on much as before, except that there will be a minuscule absence, a barely detective gap in the so-called grand scheme, one unit fewer now. Or not even that, not even an empty space where he once was, for all will rush immediately to fill that vacuum. Pft. Gone. Recollections of him will remain in the minds of others for a while, but presently those others too will die and his few relics with them. And then all will be dark.

  John Banville

  Fear, Dark, Space

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• It wasn't government that gave us nearly 50 million uninsured Americans and denials for pre-existing conditions. It wasn't government that gave us the yearly and lifetime caps on insurance coverage that have sent so many people into bankruptcy when they've faced a serious illness or accident... It wasn't government that gave us a system in which the gap between what we spend and what we get is so enormous. It was the free market.

  Paul Waldman

  Government, Serious Illness, People

  "The health care reality conservatives ignore" by Paul Waldman, www.cnn.com. November 29, 2013.

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• Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Bridges, Storytelling, Ideology

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• Social networking technology didn't really exist until 2004-2005. I had the idea to use this technology to bridge this gap between a general interest in addressing social issues and the practical action.

  Ben Rattray

  Technology, Bridges, Ideas

  "Q&A: Ben Rattray of Change.org". Interview with Dana Mattioli, www.wsj.com. August 21, 2007.

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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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• Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter.

  Mason Cooley

  Poetry, Muse, Meter

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• ... if we take the universe of 'fitting,' countless coats 'fit' backs, and countless boots 'fit' feet, on which they are not practically fitted; countless stones 'fit' gaps in walls into which no one seeks to fit them actually. In the same way countless opinions 'fit' realities, and countless truths are valid, tho no thinker ever thinks them.

  William James

  Wall, Truth, Reality

  William James (2015). “The Meaning of Truth: Human Understanding”, p.77, 谷月社

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• It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and meaning into belief.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Bridges, Black, Demand

  Henry Louis Gates (1989). “Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the "racial" Self”, p.176, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• My mind no longer has romantic abysses, but has become shallow, with many little gaps and cracks.

  Mason Cooley

  Mind, Cracks, Littles

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• Most women without children spend much more time than men on housework; with children, they devote more time to both housework andchild care. Just as there is a wage gap between men and women in the workplace, there is a "leisure gap" between them at home. Most women work one shift at the office or factory and a "second shift" at home.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Children, Work, Women

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• In place of science, the Eskimo has only magic to bridge the gap between what he can understand and what is not known. Without magic, his life would be one long panic.

  Peter Farb

  Science, Bridges, Long

  Peter Farb (1968). “Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State”

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• And were in the middle of a perfect storm. These days, government social services are being bad-mouthed and defunded. The non-profit world is looking more and more like the for-profit world. The growing gap between rich and poor makes most of us very anxious about where we stand.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Government, Perfect, Storm

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• Of course smartphones are brilliant inventions, but the nefarious thing about Twitter and other social media is that it starts to fill all the gaps in your day. I quickly become an addict.

  Nick Offerman

  Media, Smartphones, Brilliant

  "The GQA: Nick Offerman". Interview with GQ, www.gq.com. July 3, 2012.

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• In colleges, there are no gender separations in courses of study, and students can freely choose their majors. There are no male and female math classes. But women generally choose college courses that pay less in the labor market. Those are the choices that women themselves make. Those choices contribute to the pay gap.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Education, Money, Work

  Phyllis Schlafly (2015). “Phyllis Schlafly: Volume I”, p.60, Creators Publishing

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• The gap between bat and pad is so much that I would have driven a car through it... !!

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Car, Bats, Pads

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• Seeing what is wrong and how it could be made right propels us into action, but in that action we often leave other people behind and don't give ourselves enough time to be present, or to stop and reflect. Leaders have to get comfortable with pausing in that uncomfortable gap.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Inspiring, Leadership, Women

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• The poor, no less than the rich, stay tuned in to the Dream Machine in bad times as well as good....By 1995, millions of the poor were left without housing, medical care; jobs, or educational opportunity; six million children-one of every four kids under 6 years of age in America-were officially poor. Mired in Third-World conditions of poverty while video-bombarded with First-World dreams, rarely has a population suffered a greater gap between socially cultivated appetites and socially available opportunities.

  Charles Derber

  Dream, Jobs, Children

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• Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in the swift rapids of its rivers, on the limitless reaches of its western plains, in the silent vastness of primeval forests, and in the blizzard-ridden passes of the Rockies and Coast ranges.

  Harvey Broome

  War, Rivers, America

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