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«The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.»
Author: David Hare
| Keywords:
abandoned, gap-toothed, gap, healthier, poorer, rag, ragged, showing, theatre, The Theatre, toothed
«The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have - and that is a moral problem, not an economic one.»
«The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.»
«The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work»
«The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.»
Author: Spiro T. Agnew
(Vice President)
| About:
Past
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antagonism, antagonisms, contemporary, gap, ignored, known as, obliterate, obliterated, obliterates
«The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others / this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples.»
Author: George F. Will
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achievements, actualities, admirable, American history, breaking off, break off, conspicuous, continuous, exertions, gap, grandly, increased, Marks, peoples, reproach, reproaches, reproaching, singularly, spur, The Admirable, The Gap
«The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.»
«The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.»
«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.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Insincerity,
Language
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aims, as it were, cuttlefish, declared, exhausted, gap, gaps, idiom, idioms, ink, insincerity, instinctively, squirt, squirted, squirting, squirts
«The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.»
Author: Henry Kissinger
(Political scientist)
| Keywords:
Bridge The, gap, statesman, The Gap, The Statesman
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