Quotes About Regression

We're just going to retreat?" "We are not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.

O domínio do passado não implica em uma imagem de imobilidade social. É compatível com visões cíclicas de mudança histórica, e certamente com a regressão e a catástrofe (ou seja, o fracasso em reproduzir o passado). É incompatível com a ideia de progesso contínuo.

I've labored my entire life for a better world than this. It's such a step backward.

In fact, regression analysis demonstrates that the number one determinant of deal multiples is the growth rate of the business.

When Venezuela was a freer economy, it was relatively prosperous. But as the government became more involved in regulating the economy, it became progressively less free, less efficient, and less productive. When Chavez came to power, this process was already well underway; he only doubled down on it and turned economic regression into economic disaster." -p. 22

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again.

Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.

Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

this Earth. It seems like mankind evolves to a higher state and then they allow power and greed to completely absorb them and what they have learned. Then they are destroyed, and they take many, many steps backward.

Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever. 'You can come down the evolutionary ladder,' Chon has observed to Ben and O; 'you can't climb up.

I know children regress after vaccination because it happened to my own son. Why aren't there any tests out there on the safety of how vaccines are administered in the real world, six at a time? Why have only two of the 36 shots our kids receive been looked at for their relationship to autism?

Some day perhaps our time will be known as the age of irony. Not the witty irony of the eighteenth century, but the stupid or malignant irony of a crude age of technological progress and cultural regression.

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The only direction Obama has the economy moving is backward.

The last concept to be added to Bowen theory is that of societal regression. It notes that, periodically, as anxiety begins to run higher in society, regressed behavior can be noted on a massive scale. A hallmark of such an anxious period is the unwillingness of families or other institutions of society (such as the court system) to take responsibility when behavior breaks down.

Defining away the question by arguing that the buck stops with God may seem to obviate the issue of infinite regression, but here I invoke my mantra: The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not. The existence or nonexistence of a creator is independent of our desires. A world without God or purpose may seem harsh or pointless, but that alone doesn't require God to actually exist.

The answer lies in a phenomenon called regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.

This society believed it was looking towards a new future, yet we consistently find ourselves being dragged backwards.

In the spiritual life, he who does not advance goes backwards.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Unlearned language?" "There's a technical term for it," she said. "Xenoglossy. It's the ability to speak a language you've never learned. Some people appear to do so under hypnosis; they're put into a trance and they start talking as another personality. It's regression.

crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back.

the rise sets up the fall; the winning sets up the losing