Contingent Quotes
70 Contingent quotes by 63 unique authors
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To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other tomorrow.…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I do understand what love is, and that is one of the reasons I can never again be a Christian. Love is not self denial.…
— Dan Barker
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In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that…
— Paul Auster
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friendship was always contingent.
— Margaret Atwood
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Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained along a line…
— James W. Loewen
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If this day means anything, it means that you are now in the contingent of the responsible. You must be kind, yes, but you must…
— David Remnick
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We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are…
— Isabel Allende
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Look at situations as contingent, not as inevitable, look at them as the result of a series of historical choices made by men and women,…
— Edward Said
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Humans arose ... as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently and sent history…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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There is a new venue for theory, necessarily impure, where it emerges in and as the very event of cultural translation. This is not the…
— Judith Butler
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We are aware that in 2005 our efforts to preserve the stability and prestige of the Republic of Bulgaria in the area of foreign policy,…
— Georgi Parvanov
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There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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Our safety at home and the cause of freedom abroad is largely contingent upon our success in Iraq.
— Ron Lewis
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Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
— Charles Baudelaire
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No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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You dont need anyones affection or approval in order to be good enough. When someone rejects or abandons or judges you, it isnt actually about…
— Daniell Koepke
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A love of shoes -- like skirts and just about everything else -- is not contingent on gender. Other pearls of wisdom from kids: Be…
— Unknown Author
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First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of…
— Robert Creeley
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The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.
— John Charles Polanyi
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We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a…
— William Griffith Wilson
Who Wrote These Contingent Quotes
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