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• Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Children, Giving

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• Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Love Is, Hatred, Weakness

  "Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India Эту информацию не копировать в источник:".

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• All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Love, Inspiring, Selfish

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Thoughts of Power”, p.9, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius.

  Julian Barnes

  Genius, Syphilis, Century

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• The oil market is especially sensitive even to a hint of expansion or contraction in supply.

  James Surowiecki

  Oil, Expansion, Hints

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• It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mind, Spirited, Weariness

  Michel de Montaigne (1973). “Selections from the Essays”, Harlan Davidson

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• That's crazy, because I had no idea what the word 'contraction' meant before I saw it on the Internet.

  LeBron James

  Crazy, Ideas, Saws

  "LeBron James clarifies comments" by Michael Wallace, www.espn.com. December 29, 2010.

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• Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects. Silence is itself the eternal witness without form or attributes. As you rest more profoundly as the witness, all objects take on their natural functionality, and awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive contractions and identifications. It returns to its natural non-state of Presence.

  Adyashanti

  Silence, Meditation, Mind

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• The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Intellectual, Religion, Essentials

  "History of European morals from Augustus to Charlemagne".

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• Effortlessness is the ability to slow down and listen for the spaces between the joints... Deep within all things there is a natural rhythm, a music of opening and closing, expansion and contraction.

  Wayne Muller

  Space, Joints, Expansion

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• I firmly believe that the principles behind Contraction & Convergence provide the best long-term framework for a fair and equitable climate change mitigation policy

  Nick Clegg

  Believe, Long, Climate

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• When all thermonuclear sources of energy are exhausted a sufficiently heavy star will collapse. Unless fission due to rotation, the radiation of mass, or the blowing off of mass by radiation, reduce the star's mass to the order of that of the sun, this contraction will continue indefinitely.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Stars, Order, Energy

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• Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of light and dark, expansion and contraction, that characterize our experiences in the Earth school so that we can recognize our options as we move through our lives.

  Gary Zukav

  Summer, Moving, School

  "Twin Miracles" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 29, 2012.

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• Motherhood isn't just a series of contractions; it's a state of mind. From the moment we know life is inside us, we feel a responsibility to protect and defend that human being.

  Erma Bombeck

  Responsibility, Motherhood, Mind

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.240, Open Road Media

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• Success works as a cycle - growth and contraction, balancing and unbalancing - all while you're encountering hurdles that get higher and higher over time.

  Julian Smith

  Organization, Growth, Balance

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• The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it from a safe distance from many perspectives...he listened in fascination and revulsion, in envy and pity. He dispensed canned wisdom, a little scripture. He sent them on their way with a prayer.

  Jennifer Haigh

  Art, Prayer, Distance

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• Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad.  That causes an emotional contraction.  When you let it be, without naming it, enormous power is available to you.  The contraction cuts you off from that power, the power of life itself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Cutting, Emotional, Suffering

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• As you you deeply into your own awareness, and relax the self-contraction, and dissolve into the empty ground of your own primordial experience, the simply feeling of Being-right now, right here-is it not obvious at once?

  Ken Wilber

  Self, Feelings, Relax

  Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.273, Shambhala Publications

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• I am myself persuaded, on the basis of extensive study of the historical evidence, that... the severity of each of the contractions - 1920-21, 1929-33, and 1937-38 - is directly attributable to acts of commission and omission by the Reserve authorities and would not have occurred under earlier monetary and banking arrangements.

  Milton Friedman

  Omission, Historical, Banking

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.45, University of Chicago Press

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• But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?

  Alan Greenspan

  Past, Japan, Unexpected

  Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.177, Penguin

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• I never focus on contraction. I'm focusing on my muscle. I'm not focusing on a certain style of lifting or contracting. I'm just trying to get the weight up. I'm trying to build muscle.

  Ronnie Coleman

  Focus, Style, Trying

  Source: fabodylous.com

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• Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding but that an inexorable inner process forces the contraction of life. For a young person it is almost a sin and certainly a danger to be too much occupied with himself; but for the aging person it is a duty and a necessity to give serious attention to himself.

  Carl Jung

  People, Giving, Attention

  "Modern Man in Search of a Soul". Book by Carl Jung, p. 125, 1933.

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• I observed certain animalcules, within whole bodies I saw so quick a motion as to exceed belief; they were about the size of a large grain of sand, and their bodies being transparent, that the internal motion could plainly be seen. Among other things, I saw in the body of one of these animalcules a bright and round corpuscle, placed near the head, and in which a very wonderful swift motion was to be seen, consisting of an alternate extension and contraction. This particle I concluded to be the heart.

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  Heart, Body, Saws

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• The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction rather than extension and development of instinctual needs, it works for rather than against the status quo of general repression - one might speak of "institutionalized desublimation". The latter appears to be a vital factor in the making of the authoritarian personality of our time.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Acceptance, Personality, Liberty

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.74, Beacon Press

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• Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul.

  Zoroaster

  Worry, Anxiety, Soul

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