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  • What we face is a comprehensive contraction of our activities, due to declining fossil fuel resources and other growing scarcities. Our failure is the failure to manage contraction. It requires a thoroughgoing reorganization of daily life. No political faction currently operating in the USA gets this. Hence, it is liable to be settled by a contest for dwindling resources and there are many ways in which this won't be pretty.

    Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.
  • Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon.

    Moon   Names   Rockets  
    Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”
  • The EPA's greenhouse gas regulations, along with a host of other onerous regulations, are unnecessarily driving out conventional fuels as part of America's energy mix. The consequences are higher energy prices for families and a contraction of our nation's economic growth.

  • There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.

    Walter Savage Landor (1846). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.114
  • WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius.

  • 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.

  • I saw a lady on TV, she was born without arms. That's sad, but then they said, "Lola does not know the meaning of the word 'can't'." That, to me, is even worse in a way. Not only is she missing arms, but she doesn't understand simple contractions. It's easy, Lola - you just take two words, put them together, take out the middle letters, put in a comma, and you raise it up!

    Funny   Humor   Simple  
  • 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 (1973). “Selections from the Essays”, Harlan Davidson
  • At the very center of our being is rhythmic movement, a cyclic expansion and contraction that is both in our body and outside it, that is both in our mind and in our body, that is both in our consciousness and not in it.

    Andrew Weil (1995). “Spontaneous Healing: How to Discover and Enhance Your Body's Natural Ability to Maintain and Heal Itself”, Alfred A. Knopf
  • Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles usually accompanied by the overwhelming sensation of truth proximity. Visionarism. State of awe.

  • Describing laughter: The sound is produced by a deep inspiration followed by short, interrupted, spasmodic contractions of the chest, and especially the diaphragm... the mouth is open more or less widely, with the corners drawn much backwards, as well as a little upwards; and the upper lip is somewhat raised.

  • There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions.

    Hate   Use   Mail  
    Brock Clarke (2007). “An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England: A Novel”, Algonquin Books
  • The notion is that human beings are born, (as my Guru has explained many times,) with equivalent potential for both contraction and expansion. The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us, and then it's up to the individual (or the family, or the society) to decide what will be brought forth - the virtues or the malevolence. The madness of this planet is largely a result of human being's difficulty in coming into virtuous balance with himself. Lunacy (both collective and individual) results.

    Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.236, A&C Black
  • Every one and every single time is different, and I didn't have C-sections, which I don't know if that's lucky or unlucky, but I was able to feel every contraction. You forget what it feels like. God's got a great way of making women forget what it's like because we would never go through it again.

    Different   Lucky   Able  
  • The borders of my bodyhood coincide with those of my openness to the world. They are in fact at any given time identical, though they are always changing with the fluid expansion and contraction of my relationships to the world.

  • I don't think I've been too optimistic. The government believes the contraction will be around 1.5 per cent, as the central bank said. However, we're waiting to see the Commission estimate.

  • 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.

    Art   Prayer   Distance  
  • 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?

    Self   Feelings   Relax  
    Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.273, Shambhala Publications
  • That's crazy, because I had no idea what the word 'contraction' meant before I saw it on the Internet.

    Crazy   Ideas   Saws  
    "LeBron James clarifies comments" by Michael Wallace, www.espn.com. December 29, 2010.
  • Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated action.

    Tasks   Action   Muscles  
    Moshe Feldenkrais (2002). “The Potent Self: A Study of Spontaneity and Compulsion”, p.85, Frog Books
  • 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.

    Focus   Style   Trying  
    Source: fabodylous.com
  • Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.

  • We found a great rhythm. Contractions started kicking in. I sat there with her, right between her legs. We got tribal on it, we danced to it! I was DJ-ing this Brazilian music.

  • The law of the heart is thus the same as the law of muscular tissue generally, that the energy of contraction, however measured, is a function of the length of the muscle fibre.

    Heart   Science   Law  
    Ernest Henry Starling (1965). “Starling on the Heart: Facsimile Reprints, Including the Linacre Lecture on the Law of the Heart”
  • All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations of the same living matter. This adapts itself to different jobs and circumstances, but operates on the same basic principles. Muscle contraction is only one of these adaptations. In principle it would not matter whether we studied nerve, kidney or muscle to understand the basic principles of life. In practice, however, it matters a great deal.

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

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

    "Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India Эту информацию не копировать в источник:".
  • I felt very maternal around eight months. And I thought I couldn't become any more until I saw the baby... But it happened during my labor because I had a very strong connection with my child. I felt like when I was having contractions, I envisioned my child pushing through a very heavy door. And I imagined this tiny infant doing all the work, so I couldn't think about my own pain... We were talking. I know it sounds crazy, but I felt a communication.

    Baby   Strong   Children  
    "'I envisioned my child pushing through a very heavy door… so I couldn't think about my own pain': Beyoncé opens up about giving birth and her plans for baby No.2" by Fehintola Betiku, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 11, 2013.
  • Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets. We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past. 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?

    Past   Japan   Risk  
    Alan Greenspan's speech at the Annual Dinner and Francis Boyer Lecture of The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., www.federalreserve.gov. December 5, 1996.
  • I want you to know it was no big deal...those movies showing women screaming in labor are plain bullshit....there's nothing to it...you just push and push and finally the baby pops out...to tell you the truth I don't even rember that much about it except there was a very nice guy standing over me and every time a strong contraction started he gave me a whiff of gas.

    Baby   Strong   Nice  
    Judy Blume (2012). “Forever . . .”, p.168, Simon and Schuster
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