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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… — 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… — Morris Raphael Cohen
- The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Dan Quayle
- The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to… — Alain Badiou
- 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