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• In junior high I read a lot of Stephen King, whose Americana approach to writing was often about "the terror next door" and at the same time I was reading a lot of Clive Barker, who was on the other end of the horror pendulum: insidious and disturbingly psychological. I found it fascinating how these two authors came at horror from two totally different perspectives.

  Bryan Fuller

  Kings, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• All right, the pendulum isn’t working. Sometimes you need an accelerant to help it.” – Death “Like gasoline?” – Nick “Yes, Nick. We’re going to set the book and your pendulum on fire and then use them ’cause we’re just that intelligent.” – Death

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Book, Intelligent, Fire

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• The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated.

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Swings, Timing, Mathematics

  Gian-Carlo Rota (2009). “Indiscrete Thoughts”, p.30, Springer Science & Business Media

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• I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more interesting than the winners.

  Umberto Eco

  Character, Interesting, Way

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• Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen.

  Carl Sandburg

  Unseen, Poetry Is, Exhibits

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Country, Race, Swings

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• What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back the burden of grief that is laid on each one of us. In youth we don't feel it, but as we grow to manhood we find the burden on our shoulders. Humor? It is nature's effort to harmonize conditions. The further the pendulum swings out over woe the further it is bound to swing back over mirth.

  Mark Twain

  Grief, Humor, Fighting

  Mark Twain, Gary Scharnhorst (2009). “Mainly the truth: interviews with Mark Twain”, University Alabama Press

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• That's sort of overkill. We've had 70 years of the Ryder Cup, and it's gotten along just fine. The pendulum will swing back without making a monumental thing about it.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Swings, Years

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• I’m not so sure that the conventional wisdom makes any sense. Yes, it might be technically easy to track people and all that. But in the long-term I’m optimistic that we’ll see the pendulum swing back in the other direction towards more privacy.

  Rod Humble

  Optimistic, Swings, Long

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• Damn all false antitheses to hell, for they generate false gods, they perpetuate idols, they twist and distort our souls, they launch the church into violent pendulum swings who oscillations succeed only in dividing brothers and sisters in Christ

  D. A. Carson

  Brother, Swings, Idols

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• Suicide is the means of men whose resilience has been eaten away by rust, the rust of the daily round. They were born for action, but they have delayed their action; so action turns back on them with the swing of a pendulum. Suicide is an act, the act of those who have not been able to accomplish others. It is an act of faith, like all acts. Faith in one’s neighbor, in the existence of one’s neighbor, in the reality of the self and the other selves.

  Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

  Suicide, Mean, Reality

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• In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along.

  Alan Lightman

  Time, Swings, Two

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.19, Vintage

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• Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial relief to such discontented pendulums as we are.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Age, Comfort, Relief

  Journal, 1864, in Linda Allardt et al. (eds.) 'The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson' vol. 15, 1860-6 (1982) p. 428

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• I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy.

  Gillian Flynn

  Reading, Party, Men

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.243, Broadway Books

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• Financial markets are supposed to swing like a pendulum: They may fluctuate wildly in response to exogenous shocks, but eventually they are supposed to come to rest at an equilibrium point and that point is supposed to be the same irrespective of the interim fluctuations. Instead, as I told Congress, financial markets behaved more like a wrecking ball, swinging from country to country and knocking over the weaker ones. It is difficult to escape the conclusion that the international financial system itself constituted the main ingredient in the meltdown process.

  George Soros

  Country, Swings, Balls

  "The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered". Book by George Soros, 1998.

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• Your history is animal. Your future is divinity. Right now, you are like a pendulum, swinging between the two.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Animal, Two

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• Until recently, the question was 'Why can't a woman be more like a man?' It should have been changed to 'Why can't both sexes be more like the best parts of each other?' Instead, the pendulum swung to the 1960s feminist lapel button Adam Was a First Draft. True enough. So are we all.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Men, Should Have

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• If we generally like the way things are now, we must also ask whether our current situation is really so different from the open ages of radio, film, or the telephone. Might it not also have seemed in those times that the orgy of limitless entrepreneurism would never end? The point is that we are near the high end of a pendulum arc that, so far, has aways begun to swing in the opposite direction -toward greater integration and centralization- with a force that can seem inexorable.

  Tim Wu

  Swings, Opposites, Age

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• The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public consciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Compassion, Media, Yuppies

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• The combination of the Liberal and Labour Parties is much stronger than the Liberal Party would be if there were no third Party in existence. Many men who would in that case have voted for us voted on this occasion as the Labour Party told them i.e. for the Liberals. The Labour Party has "come to stay"...the existence of the third Party deprives us of the full benefits of the 'swing of the pendulum', introduces a new element into politics and confronts us with a new difficulty.

  Austen Chamberlain

  Party, Men, Swings

  "The Crisis of Conservatism" by E. H. H. Green, London: Routledge, (p. 141), 1996.

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• It's only fashion that has said the pendulum has swung from extreme skepticism about extraterrestrial life to extreme credulity. The truth is somewhere in between.

  Paul Davies

  Fashion, Truth Is, Said

  "Big Think Interview With Paul Davies". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 15, 2010.

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• If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it. Moreover, a mensural unit taken from the earth itself offers another advantage, that of being perfectly analogous to all the real measurements that in ordinary usage are also made upon the earth, such as the distance between two places or the area of some tract, for example. It is far more natural in practice to refer geographical distances to a quadrant of a great circle than to the length of a pendulum.

  Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

  Distance, Real, Taken

  "Science and Polity in France: The End of the Old Regime". Book by Charles Coulston Gillispie, p. 240, January 10, 2009.

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• If the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, thus, to a period of minority government or coalition, in some form.

  Vince Cable

  Government, Swings, Minorities

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• ... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.

  Sam Altman

  Ideas, World, Today

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• Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.

  Voltaire

  Spiritual, Moving, Men

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