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- Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. — Charles Baudelaire
- I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on… — Alfred Leslie Rowse
- Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love… — Dan Barker
- I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play… — H. A. L. Fisher
- Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right… — Mother Teresa
- To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events. — Teresa de Lauretis
- Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the… — Charles Baudelaire
- When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that… — Nhat Hanh