Greg Grandin

The question of causality is complex. For some philosophers and physicists, time might not exist. And since cause-and-effect reasoning needs the concept of time - of one thing preceding another - the effort to establish causality is a mug's game, an infinite regression of increasingly unanswerable questions.

American Historian

Noam Chomsky

Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression.

American Activist

Marine Le Pen

It is as a free French woman who has been able to enjoy, her whole life, the very precious freedoms fought for long and hard by our mothers and grandmothers, that I want to warn about a new form of social, human, and moral regression imposed on us by the migrant crisis.

French Politician

Alice Miller

Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.

Swiss Psychologist

If you're in favour of any policy - reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever - if you're at least minimally moral, it's because you think it's somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

Hjalmar Branting

But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression.

Swedish Statesman

Steve Schmidt

Liberal democracy is in regression all over the world, and it's a dangerous thing.

American Businessman

Fela Kuti

Marriage is a terrible institution, it creates such a regression of the mind.

Nigerian Musician

Pooja Bedi

I believe immensely in past life regression.

Indian Actress

Often suggests negative change or disappointment at losing progress.

Emotional Context

Used to imply that a lapse into an earlier state is not permanent.

Temporary Change

Can be metaphorical, signifying a step back in situations like negotiations.

Metaphorical Use

Mostly used in academic or professional contexts, not in everyday conversation.

Formal and Technical

Used when examining data or variables without personal or emotional aspects.

Impersonal Analysis

Refers to methods used to predict future trends based on previous data.

Predictive Tool

Indicates a psychological step back to an earlier developmental phase.

Developmental Setback

A psychological defense mechanism in response to stress or trauma.

Stress Response

The person showing regression may not be aware of their own behavior.

Not Always Conscious

 interventions can be like -- quantitative arteriography, before and after a year, and cardiac PET scans. We showed a few months ago -- we published the first study showing you can actually stop or reverse the progression of prostate cancer by making changes in diet and lifestyle, and 70 percent regression in the tumor growth, or inhibition of

Dean Ornish: The world's...

 has always been our greatest casting note for being cast as scapegoats. So for folks who are worried about this, this is not inevitably a moment for change and reform and enlightenment and America's best values, because historically, these have been precisely the moments when regression back to white supremacy has reigned supreme.

The path to ending...

 Further to the right means richer. And in there, I'm now going to put all the countries of the world, each one represented by a dot, and on top of that I'm going to put the regression line that shows the average relationship. And what this tells us is that as we get richer,

How We Can Make the...

 with a much lower GDP. Now, my slide is getting a little cluttered and I'd like to step back a bit. So let me take away these countries, and then pop in the regression line. So this shows the average relationship between GDP and social progress. The first thing to notice,

Michael Green: What the...

 leads to a freer, more democratic, healthier way of life. Now, wizards regard all this as hooey. They see it as a recipe for narrowness, regression, and global poverty. Prophet-style agriculture, they say, only extends the human footprint

How will we survive when...

 and a little Africa she became a pioneer Diane undoubtedly saved a species neither destiny nor fate took me to Africa nor was it romance I had a deep wish to see and live among mountain gorillas this woman found regression

Dian Fossey: Secrets in...

 that were nearly as intense as those in the intensive lifestyle group. Their heart disease still progressed. Diet and exercise alone were not enough to facilitate coronary disease regression.

How your emotions change...

 And not having to know history's next mad rage or regression, it might be a relief. No. Again, no. I don't mean that for a moment. What I mean is the world holds me so tightly --

C.K. Williams: Poetry...

 so I was not happy with the regression, to say the least. Again, this almost pushed me to the brink of quitting and insanity. But the Hi Level mindset made me think, "Man.

How a "Hi Level" Mindset...

 rocket that went to the moon and back so this is kind of a regression appeal would let it go Lou that just a moment running on a homemade whiskey still

Regression

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Temporary Change

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