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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
Baruch Spinoza
Nature
Nothing
Universe
All Things
Divine
Divine Nature
Particular
Operate
Contingent
Exist
Conditioned
Manner
Things
Necessity
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
Truth
Impossible
Those
Possible
Kinds
Fact
Also
Contingent
Opposite
Truths
Reasoning
Necessary
Two
Empathy should not be contingent on our proximity to suffering or the likelihood of it happening to us. Rather, it should stem from a disdain that suffering is happening at all.
Clint Smith
Suffering
Our
Rather
Stem
Empathy
Likelihood
Contingent
Proximity
Disdain
Happening
Us
Should
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
God
Day
Daily
Spiritual
Every Day
Vision
Will
Every
Our
Carry
Must
Maintenance
Contingent
Condition
Cured
Reprieve
Activities
Many Catholic parishes were segregated prior to the Civil Rights movement, and the first large contingent of African-American Catholic priests would enter into the seminary in the 1920s.
Anthea Butler
Rights
First
Enter
Rights Movement
Would
Civil
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Movement
Segregated
Priests
Catholic
Prior
Contingent
Were
Seminary
Movement
African-American
Large
Many
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
Charles Caleb Colton
Our
Waves
Circumstances
Winds
Almost
Contingent
Precarious
Commerce
Shores
Transitory
Bring
Flourishes
The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers.
Chris Hardwick
Creative
About
Consumers
Instead
Contingent
Movement
Less
Large
A contingent bailout policy - implicit or explicit - must be coupled with some regulation of what banks can and cannot do. For example, a ban on lending to uncreditworthy customers might well make sense.
Eric Maskin
Example
Sense
Must
Some
Implicit
Bailout
For Example
Well
Coupled
Make
Policy
Contingent
Ban
Banks
Cannot
Lending
Explicit
Customers
Might
Regulation
I used to watch Babita and Vinesh win medals. I was happy for my sisters but at the same time I felt bad for not being a part of the contingent.
Geeta Phogat
Time
Happy
Win
Bad
Part
Felt
Contingent
Sisters
Same
Same Time
Being
Used
Medals
Watch
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 Parvanov
Goals
Will
Our
Address
Way
Prestige
Area
Attain
Mostly
Policy
Priorities
Foreign
Bulgaria
Contingent
Foreign Policy
Domestic
Efforts
Stability
Republic
Fully
Strategic
Aware
Preserve
President George H. W. Bush soon launched Operation Desert Shield, sending an enormous contingent of troops to Saudi Arabia. But once there, what exactly were they to do? Contain Iraq? Attack and liberate Kuwait? Drive on to Baghdad and depose Saddam? There was no clear consensus among foreign policy advisers or analysts.
Greg Grandin
Liberate
Drive
Enormous
President
Analyst
Once
Arabia
Exactly
Troops
Attack
Clear
Contain
Saddam
Soon
Baghdad
Policy
Operation
Adviser
Foreign
Contingent
Foreign Policy
George
Shield
Were
Iraq
Kuwait
Sending
Bush
Desert
Among
Saudi
Consensus
Saudi Arabia
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
Hans Hofmann
Art
Soul
Become
Every
Medium
Interview
Emotion
Mastery
Contingent
Integrated
Stir
May
Impulses
Which
Us
Expression
Profound
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 A. Simon
Business
Architecture
Engineering
Painting
Design
Medicine
Concerned
How
Contingent
Short
Might
Things
Necessary
If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.
James Callaghan
You
Law
Action
Otherwise
Bad
Would
Take
Always
Contingent
Right
My colleagues on the Board of Governors and I understand the value of having a diverse financial system that includes a large and vibrant contingent of community banks.
Jerome Powell
Financial
Value
Community
System
Colleagues
Financial System
Diverse
Having
Understand
Contingent
Governors
Vibrant
Banks
Board
Large
The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.
John Polanyi
Time
Rights
Others
Our
Willingness
Fact
Come
Underscore
Contingent
Them
Assert
Defend
What you're trying to create is a certain kind of an indispensable presence, where your position in the narrative is not contingent on whether somebody likes you, or somebody knows you, or somebody's a friend, or somebody's being generous to you.
Kerry James Marshall
You
Somebody
Kind
Indispensable
Generous
Likes
Knows
Narrative
Contingent
Friend
Trying
Being
Where
Whether
Create
Certain
Your
Presence
Position
Our young people are patriots and heroes whom we can be proud of before the world; that they have a large contingent of such trustworthy young people is a great blessing for the Workers' Party of Korea and a source of pride for Korea, and this assures the great strength of our dignified state and its bright future.
Kim Jong-un
Future
Strength
Great
Blessing
People
World
Pride
Heroes
Party
Before
Young
State
Dignified
Our
Proud
Korea
Contingent
Source
Trustworthy
Patriots
Young People
Workers
Large
Whom
Bright
Bright Future
There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.
Pat Oliphant
Art
Strong
Black
Black And White
White
Cartoonists
Given
Always
Contingent
Tradition
Been
Australia
Quite
Size
Large
Population
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Richard Adams
Religion
Science
Heart
Atoms
Human Heart
Radical
Stars
Rejection
Lies
Forces
Contingent
Precisely
Modern
Move
Human
Modern Science
Which
Preferences
Popular
Belief
Novelty
First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns.
Robert Creeley
You
Book
First
Heroine
Some
Returns
Island
Contingent
Wonder
Begin
Form
Stories
Place
Which
Pattern
Separate
Now, in this U.N. stuff, the commander, although he has troops, they don't really belong to him. They're loaned by the country to the U.N. to be used, but each of these countries provide a contingent commander, a senior guy who communicates directly back to his capital.
Romeo Dallaire
Country
Back
Guy
Directly
Troops
He
Stuff
Countries
Him
Although
Contingent
Commander
His
Provide
Senior
Capital
Really
Used
Who
Each
Now
Belong
Loaned
The government should not do everything for everybody all the time, but it should provide basic services to everyone who needs them. Education ought not be contingent on income or where you live. Neither should health.
Ron Dellums
Education
Government
Time
Health
Needs
You
Live
Everybody
Ought
Everyone
Everything
Neither
Contingent
Provide
Where
Them
Should
Who
Income
Basic
Services
Our safety at home and the cause of freedom abroad is largely contingent upon our success in Iraq.
Ron Lewis
Success
Home
Freedom
Safety
Cause
Our
Abroad
Contingent
Iraq
Largely
Our ability to participate in government, to elect our leaders and to improve our lives is contingent upon our ability to access the ballot. We know in our heart of hearts that voting is a sacred right - the fount from which all other rights flow.
Stacey Abrams
Government
Rights
Heart
Voting
Other
Our
Our Lives
Ability
Sacred
Leaders
Participate
Know
Access
Contingent
Ballot
Improve
Hearts
Which
Elect
Lives
Right
Flow
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
Musicians
Beatles
Fans
Our
Peers
Kind
Rapid
Record
Guys
More
More And More
Female
Proud
Contingent
Were
Lot
Up
Which
Younger
Us
Really
Who
Grown
Grown-Up
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