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• The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where… — Alex Kozinski
• That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior. — B.F. Skinner
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• McIntosh is persuasive in his arguments that the scientific facts of evolution cannot stand alone ... science shows that historical evolution, whatever… — 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… — 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… — Alexander Hamilton
• One thing that I am sure of, and which I can answer truthfully, is that whatever the contingencies that may arise here,… — Francisco Franco
• The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the conditions, positive and negative, taken together; the whole of the contingencies… — John Stuart Mill

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