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"It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly."
"It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes."
"The gap between the rich and the poor cannot keep growing without nothing being done about it."
"Negativity is born in the gap where love has been excluded."
"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."
"If I could change my appearance, I would have the gap between my front teeth put back in."
"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!"
"There's the space that you soar into, the space that you sometimes break through to, and hang in. A sort of gasp or gap."
"The world of fantasy fills the gaps in people's knowledge."
"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."
"I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up."
"Frentzen is taking, er, reducing that gap between himself and Frentzen."
"Congress has become so dysfunctional that more and more of a burden is placed on the agencies to fill in the gaps. And the gaps get bigger and bigger because they're not constantly refreshed and tweaked."
"Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be."
"There's a huge gap in the market for modern online marketing and business education for women that's effective, fun, and gorgeous to engage with. I knew I could fill that gap."
"There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy."
"The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't."
"I know that gaps can be closed. And they can be closed substantially, more than I think we believe."
"There is always a gap between intention and action."
"I couldn't ever boil potatoes over the heat of your affection. Your love would never bridge a gap; it wouldn't even fill up the hole that the mice came through."
