Contingencies Quotes

25 quotes by 24 authors

The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses… — Alex Kozinski
That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior. — B.F. Skinner
A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies. — B.F. Skinner
Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject a… — Brian Sutton-Smith
There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of… — Samuel Johnson
A good portfolio is more than a long list of good stocks and bonds. It is a balanced whole, providing the investor with protections and… — Harry Markowitz
McIntosh is persuasive in his arguments that the scientific facts of evolution cannot stand alone ... science shows that historical evolution, whatever its contingencies, is… — Holmes Rolston III
Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films. — Wesley Morris
The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make… — Samuel Eliot Morison
It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford complete security against… — Alexander Hamilton
One thing that I am sure of, and which I can answer truthfully, is that whatever the contingencies that may arise here, wherever I am… — Francisco Franco
The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies of every description,… — John Stuart Mill
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence… — Will Self
It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a process by which… — Ronald Fisher
... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any machine that can… — Rene Descartes
Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No, the impression comes… — Marcus Aurelius
It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are… — Ulysses S. Grant
...she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness. — Thomas Hardy
There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll live in a… — Jodi Picoult
O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do. — Walt Whitman

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