#gap

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. ↗

— George Orwell

#between #clear #declared #enemy #exhausted

Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities. ↗

— Major Owens

#aware #close #communities #gap #help

We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere. ↗

— Major Owens

#close #educational #everywhere #gap #happens

The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic. ↗

— Amos Oz

#between #central #gap #labor #microscopic

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#america #american #american life #between #culture

The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin in a haystack. ↗

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

#gaps #indians #like #pin

Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#alliance #almost #also #between #defence

Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#felt #filled #gap #had #important

Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#among #best #cannot #children #competitive

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#between #big #confidence #gap