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Contingency Quotes

That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.

That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.

B. F. Skinner
Teaching, Behavior, Contingency

And even, if circumstances required, a contingency plan for his contingency plan's contingency plan.

Frank Beddor
Circumstances, Plans, Contingency

We have contingency plans for war, but none for peace.

Theodore C. Sorensen
War, Plans, Contingency Plans

Freedom is the recognition of contingency.

Richard Rorty
Recognition, Contingency
Richard Rorty (1998). “Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers”, p.326, Cambridge University Press

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

Penelope Lively
Everything Happens For A Reason, Choices, Contingency

He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.

Jean-Paul Sartre
Becoming, Ends, Contingency
Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Nausea”, p.13, New Directions Publishing

To anticipate and prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom and patriotism.

George Washington
Would Be, Contingency, Anticipate
Letter to John Jay, August 15, 1786.

[A] power equal to every possible contingency must exist somewhere in the government . . .

Alexander Hamilton
Government, Equal, Contingency
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.125, Coventry House Publishing

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