Contingency Quotes

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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not enable us to get a… — Morris Raphael Cohen
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
To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues. — Sun Tzu
That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior. — B.F. Skinner
[A] power equal to every possible contingency must exist somewhere in the government . . . — Alexander Hamilton
Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I often think of… — Randy Pausch
Yet Gotama's Dhamma is more than just a series of axioms. It is to be lived rather than simply adopted and believed in. It entails… — Stephen Batchelor
A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies. — B.F. Skinner
Certainly, I know what to do, and when I am Vice President -- and I will be -- there will be contingency plans under different… — Dan Quayle
The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that's… — Alain Badiou
But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and control will never… — Manuel De Landa
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
The skin is a variety of contingency: in it, through it, with it, the world and my body touch each other, the feeling and the… — Michel Serres
One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. — Randy Pausch
It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency. — Penelope Lively
The new goddess contingency could not be erected until the God of heaven was utterly despoiled of his dominion over the sons of men, and… — John Owen
Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it. — Phyllis Bottome
Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us to… — David Malouf
The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine. — Heinz Pagels

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