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1.3 billion years ago, in a distant, distant galaxy, two black holes locked into a spiral, falling inexorably towards each other and collided, converting three Suns' worth of stuff into pure energy in a tenth of a second.
And duck vaginas are shaped like a clockwise
spiral
so that when the male inflates his long, counterclockwise coiled penis into her, and she disapproves, all she needs to do is flex her vaginal muscles and the penis just flubs out.
After that, we're going to go on a YouTube
spiral
that starts with videos of Richard Feynman talking about magnets and ends much, much later with us watching interviews with Justin Bieber's mom.
The best way to
spiral
into a cycle of poverty is to kill the parents.
What happens is, a third party's provocation forces one or the other to react, and that sets in motion a spiral, which drags the two somewhere they don't want to go.
It's a
spiral
to ever-increasing capabilities, but we need to know when we seek to learn, and when we seek to perform, and while we want to spend time doing both, the more time we spend in the learning zone, the more we'll improve.
When I looked back on all that had happened, I could see that my son's
spiral
into dysfunction probably occurred over a period of about two years, plenty of time to get him help, if only someone had known that he needed help and known what to do.
So the ethical implications of our decisions become really salient, and in those cases, we
spiral
towards more and more good person behavior, or, to be more precise, towards more and more behavior that makes us feel like a good person, which isn't always the same, of course.
The end of this
spiral
of rage and blame begins with one person who refuses to indulge these destructive, seductive impulses.
It's a
spiral.
If you're a college student who, say, is in a downward spiral, and you feel helpless and hopeless, unabated, that could cost you your life.
If I feel like things are starting to spiral, I make an appointment to see my therapist, a dynamic black woman named Dawn Armstrong, who has a great sense of humor and a familiarity that I find comforting.
In these galaxies, especially in a
spiral
galaxy like this, most of the mass of the stars is concentrated in the middle of the galaxy.
He had seen family, friends, and neighbors
spiral
into addiction, incarceration and suicide.
She carries a mean
spiral
notebook and a pen.
If you don't have that, then you run the risk of economic stagnation, or maybe even a declining economic spiral, as there simply aren't enough customers out there to buy the products and services being produced.
And I think if Grace Kelly is the most glamorous person, maybe a
spiral
staircase with glass block may be the most glamorous interior shot, because a
spiral
staircase is incredibly glamorous.
And what happens is that as we turn increasingly to rules, rules and incentives may make things better in the short run, but they create a downward
spiral
that makes them worse in the long run.
So let's go out further, till we're outside the galaxy, and look back, and yeah, there's the huge galaxy with
spiral
arms laid out in front of us.
To give you some sense of the power of this idea, the biggest block is what we call the book
spiral.
Ok, so here, this is the book
spiral.
Each square is n minus 2 pixels smaller than the last in length and width, and we can follow this
spiral
pattern all the way to the center with a loop and a variable that tracks how far Hedge should fly.
The strength of the
spiral
is the simplicity of finding a pattern and reusing the same logic from start to finish.
So let's call it the death
spiral
of negativity.
And that's why I lump growing lethality of hatred and death
spiral
of negativity under the general rubric, reasons to be cheerful.
And there is a very nice
spiral
up in the upper left.
They become consumers and producers and local economies begin to
spiral
up very rapidly.
A commitment to being a learning organization, always trying to
spiral
upwards the innovation and learning curves.
And I began to
spiral
down, isolated, fast.
After I couldn't ignore the hype about the show, I started watching season one and it struck me as really good and I was hooked.... for about 5 episodes, then it started to
spiral
downwards.
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