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The Huffington Post Investigative Fund's goal is to produce a broad range of investigative journalism created by both staff reporters and freelance writers, with…

— Arianna Huffington

Real change doesn't come without crisis. Childbirth doesn't come without crisis. I think that's happening with humanity now. Our growth has generated multiple crises...and…

— Charles Eisenstein

What we face is a comprehensive contraction of our activities, due to declining fossil fuel resources and other growing scarcities. Our failure is the…

— James Howard Kunstler

I observed certain animalcules, within whole bodies I saw so quick a motion as to exceed belief; they were about the size of a…

— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Financial institutions are not being bailed out as a favor to them or their stockholders. In fact, stockholders have come out worse off after…

— Thomas Sowell

All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are…

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The stock market crashed in October 1929. But that was not the cause of what caused the Great Depression. It was, in my opinion,…

— Milton Friedman

I think we'll see a leveling off and then a contraction of population, not a continued upward trend.

— James Howard Kunstler

“Contractions. Kane’s stomach dropped right out of his body. He stared down at her, his mind going fuzzy. That was one of those words…

— Christine Feehan

Great art grabs you, against your will, and then suspends your will. You are ushered into a quiet clearing, free of desire, free of…

— Ken Wilber

Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated action.

— Moshe Feldenkrais

Compounds of gaseous substances with each other are always formed in very simple ratios, so that representing one of the terms by unity, the…

— Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets. We…

— Alan Greenspan

Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding but that an inexorable inner process forces the contraction of life. For…

— Carl Jung

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…

— Beyonce Knowles