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• The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it… — Lee Krasner
• For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make… — Steven Chu
• The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of… — Barbara Ehrenreich
• The person who observes a clock, sees in it not only the pendulum swinging to and fro, and the dial-plate, and the… — Justus von Liebig
• Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would… — Leon Foucault
• When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced… — Hermann von Helmholtz
• Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. — Arthur Schopenhauer
• We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle. — Thomas Jefferson
• Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of… — George Bernard Shaw
• The observations, so numerous and so important, of the pendulum as object are especially relevant to the length of its oscillations. Those… — Leon Foucault
• Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions. — Albert Einstein

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