#contingent

If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take. ↗

— James Callaghan

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Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos. ↗

— Spalding Gray

#chaos #contingent #everything

Hanson has rapid female fans, which I'm completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really - our peers. There's younger fans. More and more guys are Hanson fans, musicians or kind of guys who were into a Beatles record. ↗

— Taylor Hanson

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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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For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards. ↗

— Brian Eno

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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 of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. ↗

— 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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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, and our efforts to attain fully our strategic goals will be mostly contingent upon the way we address our domestic priorities. ↗

— Georgi Purvanov

#area #attain #aware #bulgaria #contingent

Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

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Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design. ↗

— Herbert Simon

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