#pendulum

Beware of faking: people will believe you. People believe those who sell lotions that make lost hair grow back. They sense instinctively that the salesman is putting together truths that don't go together, that he's not being logical, that he's not speaking in good faith. But they've been told that God is mysterious, unfathomable, so to them incoherence is the closest thing to God. The farfetched is the closest thing to miracle. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#umberto-eco #faith

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#come #country #everyone #far #long

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

#directly proportional #displaced #displacement #electron #equilibrium

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

No, no, no separate but equal... never the twain shall meet. And the pendulum kept swinging and it came to rest in the bastard hybrid known as the Daily Show. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#daily #daily show #equal #hybrid #kept

I think that the pendulum will swing back to the other side one day. ↗

— Susan Anton

#day #i #i think #one day #other

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

Doing the limbo under a razor pendulum is a lot cheaper than having a caesarian in a hospital. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #pendulum #pregnancy #funny

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

— John Freeman

#camp #pendulum #swinging

In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#immortality #life-after-death #the-pit-and-the-pendulum #death