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Optimism research teaches us that we should expect the best and have a contingency plan for the worst. — Paul Dolan

We are a fluke of nature, a quirk of evolution, a glorious contingency. — Michael Shermer

Seriously, this old woman had no idea how close she came to being squashed like a roach. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency — P.S. Martinez

I'd be a dumbass if I didn't plan for every contingency. — Maya Banks

Do you have a zombie contingency plan? — Kelly Link

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

That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior. — B.F. Skinner

But even bitterness fades away eventually. We both have to believE that. Don't we? — Sophie Kinsella

To anticipate & prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom & patriotism. — George Washington

A president must be on the job 24/7, ready for any contingency, any crisis, anywhere, anytime. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Mercy is a contingency plan, devised by the guilty in the eventuality that they are caught. Justice is the domain of the just. - Richard Rahl — Terry Goodkind

There is a kinship between the concepts of nature and radical contingency. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

We must allow for every contingency, must prepare for every eventuality and turn in the game. — R.A. Salvatore

There is nearly always uh, a process of wanting contingency plans made in the military. — McGeorge Bundy

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. — Randy Pausch

The only contingency he had not learned how to bear was the possibility of his own madness. — Stephen King

It sounded somewhat doom-laden, so I felt obliged to look it up more thoroughly, in case I should eat some chocolate rather quickly. — Carol Anne Dobson

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

When you see John Boehner crying, believe you me, it's because he cannot control, uh, that wild contingency called the Tea Party. — Gwen Moore

If there was a risk that the vendor wouldn't come through for you, then you should have had a contingency plan. — Andrew Hunt

You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it. — Nicky Gumbel

There used to be a certain condescension to Mozart. His music was regarded as pleasant. He was a porcelain figure playing a porcelain harpsichord. — Peter Shaffer

The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine. — Heinz R. Pagels

God, however, is first glimpsed within nature's still greater powerlessness - its transitoriness and contingency and explanatory poverty. — David Bentley Hart

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

You have to choose: death or lies. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth. — C.S. Lewis

I never read. I just look at pictures. — Andy Warhol

That's when I decided once and for all that we were doomed. It was that or I would die right there and then. — C.V. Hunt

Presidents and Lyndon Johnson was really no exception, very rapidly learned the difference between a contingency plan and an authorized act. — McGeorge Bundy

To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues. — Sun Tzu

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it
and a greater fool if you count upon it. — Phyllis Bottome

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

Support for the arts
merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore! — Robert A. Heinlein

There is no necessity to crucify yourself upon a cross of your own making. — Steven Redhead

It was always best to have contingency plans, and plans within plans. — Travis Heermann

The immediate contingency overtook him, pulling him back from the edge of the theoretical abyss. — F Scott Fitzgerald