Arthur Schopenhauer

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

German Philosopher

Henry Rollins

In many ways, America is on the receiving end of a pendulum that has been swung with great force, and for a long time, outward into the world. The impact is a wake-up call on every level.

American Musician

Jon Stewart

Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings.

American Entertainer

Clint Eastwood

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

American Actor

Karen Katz

I look fashionable every day. And the pendulum swings between more, or less, edgy when I'm with bankers.

American Author

Carl Jung

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Swiss Psychologist

Martha MacCallum

Political pendulums swing hard and feed on stark contrast.

American Journalist

Michelle Dean

Novelists do not swing on the same pendulums as critics.

Ed Gillespie

American Politician

Ana Navarro

American Critic

Understand pendulum as representing a specific type of movement found in clocks or experiments.

Physical Motion

Pendulums are key in clocks to keep time; they help measure seconds accurately.

Timekeeper

Pendulum can be a metaphor for changes in opinions or situations, swinging from one extreme to another.

Metaphorical Use

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 And the answer is that architecture works on the principle of a pendulum. On the one side is innovation, and architects are constantly pushing, pushing for new technologies, new typologies, new solutions for the way that we live today. And we push and we push and we push

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 No matter how skilled a clockmaker may be, every pendulum, wind-up mechanism and quartz crystal resonates at a slightly different frequency. However, every cesium 133 atom in the universe oscillates at the same exact frequency. So thanks to the atomic clock,

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 The sun has a tremendous field that extends way beyond the planets and the Earth's magnetic field protects us from the sun. So there's this huge invisible shape structures that magnetism takes in the universe. But with the pendulum,

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 None of them work. The moving parts that make one side of the wheel heavier also shift its center of mass downward below the axle. With a low center of mass, the wheel just swings back and forth like a pendulum, then stops.

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 have a new life in the reopening of MOMA. And it's a piece that the tool itself is the sculpture. So the pendulum, as it swings, is used as a tool to create the piece. So each of the piles of objects

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 tortoises follow that sort of pendulum of greenness as it moves up and down the island but these seasonal migrations have been affected by the arrival of humans puerto ayora the largest town in

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 And the pandemic gripped the world. And then the pendulum that swings between freedom and security has snapped off its hinge. There is a constant, extreme emphasis on safety

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 steel towers can move with the earth to absorb the shock and inside each tower lies a second layer protection 20 huge pendulums

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