#pendulum

Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like a pendulum to its position of rest. ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

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So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble. ↗

— John Podesta

#circumstances #could #get #i #i think

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#centre #certain #certain time #distance #finds

The pendulum is swinging back to the HD-DVD camp. ↗

— John Freeman

#camp #pendulum #swinging

She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed. ↗

— O. Henry

#the-pendulum #wife #life

I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

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The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. ↗

— Carl Jung

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History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that. ↗

— Robert Johnson

#been #caught #get #history #individual

Politics swings like a pendulum. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#pendulum #politics #swings

Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings. ↗

— Jon Stewart

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