#gap

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#been #between #brain #brains #closest

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#between #charter #continuing #convenience #definition

It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#add #along #between #could #digital

Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners. ↗

— Ruben Hinojosa

#business #business owners #closing #entrepreneurs #failed

In our own state, we came up with, I think, what was a very novel approach to closing the gap on the uninsured. To harmonize medical records - which was a major step in getting costs out of the system. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#came #closing #costs #gap #getting

At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media. ↗

— Josh Hutcherson

#between #book #bridge #certain #creative

Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#better #civil #civil society #direction #energy

We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#country #crises #gap #had #intelligence

Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#controlled #creates #democracy #even #forces

I'm kind of a builder of institutions. I think I've got some ability to look at what's out here, look at a playing field, and identify gaps and niches. ↗

— David Brock

#builder #field #gaps #got #here