“ When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. ”
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche- Copy
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“ We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid. ”
- Woody Harrelson- Copy
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“ Well, a lot of people would say it's ridiculous to imagine the United States would either start something or stage something but - gee whiz! - Remember the Gulf of Tonkin! ”
- Art Bell- Copy
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“ There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
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“ There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge. ”
- Patrick Campbell- Copy
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“ How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man. ”
- Johnny Cash- Copy
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“ His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son. ”
- John Marquand- Copy
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“ He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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“ The CIA's and the Defense Department's long denial of the possibility of chemical weapons exposure was a great disservice to thousands of Gulf War veterans whose tour of duty in the Persian Gulf has adversely affected their health. ”
- Terry Everett- Copy
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“ Sure 'tis a serious thing to die! My soul! What a strange moment it be, when, near Thy journey's end, thou hast the gulf in view! That awful gulf, no mortal e'er repass'd,To tell what's doing on the other side. ”
- Robert Blair- Copy
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“ There are a lot of empty seats that are about to be filled with corporatists surrounded by corporate hospitality suites funded by $13 million of taxpayers money. That's a pretty sickly witches' brew for a private convention where corporations have poured $100 million into it… ”
- Ralph Nader- Copy
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“ For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone — when you have felt around you are a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and despair have trusted to your own unshaken will — then only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten men who have never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought — the subtle rapture of postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army… ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.- Copy
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“ What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections of the soul? Man is a depth still greater than the people. Jean Valjean at that very moment was the prey of a terrible upheaval. Every sort of gulf had opened again within him. He also was trembling, like Paris, on the brink of an obscure and formidable revolution… ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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“ We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth — all these belong to the old period… ”
- William Makepeace Thackeray- Copy
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“ The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf. ”
- Lewis Mumford- Copy
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“ The Past — the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf — the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past? ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
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