We are a fluke of nature, a quirk of evolution, a glorious contingency. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Often think of the worst-case scenario, the "Eaten By Wolves" factor. — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
There is certainly a strong game development community in Texas, centered around Austin, with a significant additional contingency coming over from Dallas. — Jennifer Pahlka Copy Share Image
When actions are followed by events that are not causally related to the prior acts, people often erroneously perceive contingencies that do… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
“In thinking the of the eternal, we must link the eternal with the accidentality of our thinking” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can’t control every contingency. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it’ll be okay anyway. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When you see John Boehner crying, believe you me, it's because he cannot control, uh, that wild contingency called the Tea Party. — Gwen Moore Copy Share Image
The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Whereas some dwell on the bright side of life, enjoying an exciting spectrum of contingencies, and get all the breaks, others live… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The very essence of civilized culture is that we deliberately institute, in advance of the happening of various contingencies and emergencies of… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes life can be unexpected. Sometimes things surprise you and all you can do is roll with the punches or let them… — P. S. Martinez Copy Share Image
I believe that a person should take an affirmative outlook. There are always problems in life, old and new, uncertainties, and unexpected… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
I mean, the radical contingency that is - that exists and the fact that I'm going into the streets and finding random… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and… — Manuel De Landa Copy Share Image
Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
Kripke says that physicalists like me can't explain the 'apparent contingency' of mind-brain identities. He maintains that, if I really believed that… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt.… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books… — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
There is no evolutionary pressure to create minds capable of forming sciences; it just happened. Evolutionary pressure has not led to higher… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Men wiser and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. These harmonies are concealed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But do you imagine there’s a certain type of person in the world who conforms to the idea of a ‘bad person'?… — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“The brain homology hypothesis entails losses across the board, with more than 75 percent of existing animal phyla having quite literally lost… — Russell Powell Copy Share Image
“Evaluation must be done in hindsight, after the work has been done, not for proposals for work to be done. That said,… — Venkatesh Narayanamurti Copy Share Image
“[Foucault's] criticism is not transcendental, and its goal is not that of making a metaphysics possible: it is genealogical in its design… — Paul Rabinow Copy Share Image
“Like most visionary utopias, though. IDN (Integrated Data Network) was never to be. Perhaps it was simply too ambitious a project: infrastructures… — Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra Copy Share Image
“In line with the total assault of scientific investigation and critical rationality on our most well-cherished and established intuitions, why should we… — Reza Negarestani Copy Share Image
“The general argument from the contingent to the absolute, or from the conditioned to the unconditioned, is a powerful and cogent one.… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Humans are wired to feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and contingency, and so we gravitate to a position after a short time even… — Charles Hugh Smith Copy Share Image
“Seriously, this old woman had no idea how close she came to being squashed like a roach. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency” — P. S. Martinez Copy Share Image
“The immediate contingency overtook him, pulling him back from the edge of the theoretical abyss.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
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