Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
To anticipate and prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom and patriotism. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Once the dollar begins to collapse beneath the weight of all this new deficit spending, accumulation of contingency liabilities and the socialization… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
Often think of the worst-case scenario, the "Eaten By Wolves" factor. — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will.… — Martin Luther 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
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
“Contingency cannot be a contingent phenomenon. All unforeseen circumstances have unknown causes.” — Elmar Hussein Copy Share Image
Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No,… — Marcus Aurelius 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
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
Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come… — John Polkinghorne 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
You know, the process, I think, is the story. And it goes back, again, to what I said about chance and about… — Kehinde Wiley 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
Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers,… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
In brief, nationalism is a theory of political legitimacy, which requires the ethnic boundaries should not be cut across political ones, and,… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“An egg is a chemical process, but it is not a mere chemical process. It is one that is going places—even when,… — John Randall Copy Share Image
The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
“All religions, nearly all philosophies, and even a part of science testify to the unwearying, heroic effort of mankind desperately denying its… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
“There is no entitlement! Not to this breath. Not to the next day. Not to the love that is given to us.… — Tobias M. Kohl Copy Share Image
McEwan's Atonement…truly dazzles, proving to be as much about the art and morality of writing as it is about the past…. The… — Noah Richler Copy Share Image
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