"Freedom is the recognition of contingency." — Richard Rorty

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• The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• By no amount of reasoning can we altogether eliminate all contingency from our world. Moreover, pure speculation alone will not… — Morris Raphael Cohen
• The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed… — Alex Kozinski
• To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of… — 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… — Randy Pausch
• Yet Gotama's Dhamma is more than just a series of axioms. It is to be lived rather than simply adopted… — 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… — Dan Quayle
• The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from… — Alain Badiou
• But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing,… — Manuel De Landa

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