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«The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.»
«Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.»
Author: Marguerite Duras
(Film Director, Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter)
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console, encourages, fill up, gaps, on the contrary, psychological, regions, replaces, transport, transported, transporting, transports
«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»
«God fills the gaps of human need, Each crisis brings its word and deed»
«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)
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Insincerity,
Language
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aims, as it were, cuttlefish, declared, exhausted, gap, gaps, idiom, idioms, ink, insincerity, instinctively, squirt, squirted, squirting, squirts
«So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
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Africa, elephants, gaps, geographer, geographers, maps, savage, The Downs, towns, uninhabitable
«The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
arrival, as a whole, bestiality, daylight, exceptions, falsities, falsity, From Hell, gaps, hydra, limbo
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