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Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of light and dark, expansion and contraction, that characterize our experiences in the Earth school so that we can recognize our options as we move through our lives.
Gary Zukav
Love
Winter
Dark
Light
School
Our
Summer
Earth
Our Lives
Recognize
Characterize
Both
Through
Opposition
Contraction
Expansion
Options
Move
Experiences
Us
Show
Expressions
Lives
The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.
Leonardo da Vinci
Nature
Cause
Will
Giving
Support
Know
Sinews
Well
Limb
Said
How
Causes
Surround
Contraction
Very
Familiar
Movement
Which
Swelling
Who
Painter
Many
Muscle
Muscles
The oil market is especially sensitive even to a hint of expansion or contraction in supply.
James Surowiecki
Market
Supply
Hint
Contraction
Expansion
Oil
Sensitive
Even
China's rise is really a kind of a world historical event. This is the largest country in the world. It has caused a wholesale substantial contraction of U.S. manufacturing employment.
David Autor
World
Country
Kind
Rise
Employment
Caused
Historical
Contraction
Substantial
China
Really
Manufacturing
Wholesale
Event
Largest
The Indian business has largely grown on the back of exports. The domestic markets, as far as our Indian business is concerned, actually have contracted because of the contraction in the medium and heavy commercial vehicle space.
Baba Kalyani
Business
Space
Medium
Back
Our
Markets
Indian
Vehicle
Concerned
Because
Contracted
Domestic
Contraction
Commercial
Heavy
As Far As
Far
Exports
Grown
Largely
Actually
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.
Gina McCarthy
Nation
Energy
Consequences
Other
Our
Unnecessarily
Out
Economic
Higher
Economic Growth
Prices
Host
Driving
Part
Along
Mix
Contraction
Families
America
Greenhouse
Conventional
EPA
Energy Prices
Fuels
Regulations
Growth
Gas
It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.
Ibrahim Babangida
Nature
Destination
Distance
Never
Course
Line
Historical
Contraction
Straight
Shortest
Straight Line
Shortest Distance
Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
Edmund Phelps
Bent
Classical
Lay
Output
Part
Supply
Thus
Economists
Employment
Contraction
Labour
Decline
Large
Large Part
TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done.
Goodman Ace
Words
Clever
Nothing
Medium
Our
Latest
TV
Vaudeville
Well
Terrible
Well Done
Call
Because
However
Contraction
Done
Derived