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It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.
The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.
It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.
The gap between the rich and the poor is wider in the United States than it is in any of the other industrialized nations.
I love shopping. It's one of my favorite things to do with friends! My favorite stores are H&M, J.Crew, Gap, and Nordstrom.
It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.
Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.
Social change occurs when the gap between the ideals that people hold and the reality that they see every day gets too large.
It is overwhelmingly women who will plug the gaps in care provision, sacrificing paid employment to look after family members.
Take advantage of each small success. In this way you close the gap between what you want from life and what it is giving you.
I grew up with music hall and revue and was used to filling in the little gaps here and there to get bigger audience reaction.
There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die.
It is easier to bridge the oceans that lie between continents than it is to bridge the gap between individuals or the peoples.
We always see that the gaps in qualifying are surprisingly close but then in the race suddenly it is like a second or something.
I'm almost thirty and my day job is folding shirts at the Gap. Have you seen my room? I'm not messy. I'm rebelling against folding.
Whenever I hit a ball in the gap, I'm thinking the extra bases. I never slow down. That's the only way you're going to get triples.
Creativity in all forms of life, from arts to business to domestic situations, depends on our ability to recognize and explore gaps
My view is that science only has something to say about a very particular notion of God, which goes by the name of 'god of the gaps'.
One of the negative sides of a really intense arc as a touring band is there are big gaps in your memory because you're so exhausted.
Every time I go to the dentist they say, 'You really need to fix that gap of yours'. I'm like, 'My gap is paying your dentist bills.'
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.
There's tonnes of room for more people in the tech market, and there are lots of content gaps that have still not yet been tapped into.
The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.
We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less.
Would you like a whiskey?' I say. 'I've got some.' (That's original. I bet nobody's ever thought of that way of bridging the gap before.)
If we don't rebuild that connection with people we will really find even bigger gaps, because our gap on inequality is not just economic.
There are still substantial areas of disagreement, .. you simply have to look at the public statements to see there is a significant gap.
We should be uncomfortable with the growing gaps in our society, and we cannot allow ourselves to become desensitized to these injustices.
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.
The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.
It's vital to understand where you may have gaps in your knowledge or experience and to surround yourself with a team that complements that.
You have to suspend thinking in narratives. The moment you are conscious of yourself the gap opens up. And in this gap, stories are generated.
The economy is better than the one President [Barack] Obama inherited, and unemployment is lower, but the unemployment rate gap remains large.
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
Natural gas is a very flexible source of energy that can help us bridge the gap between our current high-carbon economy and our zero-carbon future.
At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.
I am constantly hustling and finding new things. You try to manage so you don't look back and see huge gaps of time that you missed with your family.
The absence of any consideration of lesbian consciousness or the consciousness of third world women leaves a serious gap within this conference. . . .
But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!
I'm driven by the gaps, the things that are missing, the areas where marginalized people exist - and where the least resources are available for them.
The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom.
Then there are the people who know me from the lectures. What I am really trying to do, what I need to accomplish at this time, is to fill in the gaps.
I wouldn't describe myself as a home run hitter. I'm just trying to hit the ball hard in the gaps. Just backspinning baseballs and hitting line drives.
Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider.
I'm kind of a builder of institutions. I think I've got some ability to look at what's out here, look at a playing field, and identify gaps and niches.
When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.
Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage.
Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history.
I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.