Top Contingent Quotes
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
Charles Caleb Colton
To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.
Teresa de Lauretis
Our safety at home and the cause of freedom abroad is largely contingent upon our success in Iraq.
Ron Lewis
Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.
W. Clement Stone
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Walter Lippmann
James Callaghan 
Charles Baudelaire 
Herbert Simon 
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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
Charles Caleb Colton 
58% of people like this quote
To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.
Teresa de Lauretis
57% of people like this quote
Our safety at home and the cause of freedom abroad is largely contingent upon our success in Iraq.
Ron Lewis
55% of people like this quote
Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.
W. Clement Stone
55% of people like this quote
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Walter Lippmann
54% of people like this quote
We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our daily activities.
William Griffith Wilson
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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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The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.
John Charles Polanyi
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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
52% of people like this quote
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