#gap

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. ↗

— Ben Fountain

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I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children. ↗

— Barney Frank

#authority #between #children #consensual #deep

I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up. ↗

— Joss Stone

#gap #i #lined #off #still

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#because #best #community #comparisons #countries

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#among #basis #betterment #between #black

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process. ↗

— Susan George

#always #between #class #erosion #gap