Rick Perlstein

History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.

American Historian

Kerry James Marshall

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.

American Artist

Grace Potter

The longevity of a band is really contingent on loving the people that you're making music with and being able to get along in the long run. It's just like being married, except you're married to more than one person!

American Musician

Gottfried Leibniz

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.

German Philosopher

Eric Maskin

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.

American Economist

Baruch Spinoza

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.

Dutch Philosopher

James Callaghan

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

English Leader

Ernst Mayr

Evolution thus is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection.

German Scientist

W. Clement Stone

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

American Businessman

Spalding Gray

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

American Actor

Use 'contingent' to emphasize a future event depends on another condition being met.

Conditional Future

'Contingent' implies there's no certainty, highlighting that an outcome is not guaranteed.

Not a Guarantee

Use 'contingent' as a noun to talk about a specific group with a common attribute or purpose.

Specific Group

When referring to a 'contingent' of people, it often means they are representing at an event.

Event-Related

'Contingent' in this sense often refers to a backup plan or alternative if the main one fails.

Backup Plan

A 'contingent' scenario suggests it's a less likely situation to occur compared to other possibilities.

Low Probability

In philosophy, 'contingent' underscores that outcome is not predetermined but subject to chance.

Chances Involved

Used to highlight that an outcome cannot be foreseen and hinges on variable factors.

Uncertain Outcome

 it's a pretty simple premise. Get an addict, all the people in their life, gather them together, confront them with what they're doing, and they say, if you don't shape up, we're going to cut you off. So what they do is they take the connection to the addict, and they threaten it, they make it contingent

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 This contingent seems to be quite lucky, and it has not sustained any casualties, even though dozens of peacekeepers have been killed in Liberia. And yes, all of those people killed were male. Many of the women are married with children, and they say the hardest part of their deployment

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 waged between the democratic republic and General Franco’s fascist contingent. For Pablo Picasso, the tragedy sparked a frenzied period of work in which he produced a massive anti-war mural, aptly titled "Guernica." The painting is a powerful work of historical documentation

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 and in low-paying and unpaid internships. In fact, half a million Coloradans suffer wage theft every year. The nature of work is changing. We've seen it in the rise of freelancing, independent contracting, piece rate and part-time work and contingent work.

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 and it does just the opposite. It dulls thinking and blocks creativity. What's interesting about this experiment is that it's not an aberration. This has been replicated over and over again for nearly 40 years. These contingent motivators --

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 separate groups so the whole idea of numeric superiority that was one of post fellow's calculations to try to prevent the arrow people or preempt they're thinking about attacking us was to have a large contingent well-armed so that

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 state owned corporation and its debt and then lastly not a direct debt of the country but it's the contingent liabilities which we saw in the recent crisis is very important the too big to fail those institutions in a country

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 Chris Fantastic. Just stay up here. That was fantastic. I found that really moving. You know, we fought hard to get at least a small Pakistani contingent to come. It felt like it was really important.

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 this is what makes them powerful. Protests are contentious and contested processes, defined by contingent actions, often devoid of clear messaging, characterized by incomplete organization.

How protest is...

 But if you look at the characteristics of those two, pleasure is contingent upon time, upon its object, upon the place. It is something that -- changes of nature.

Contingent

Depending on something else in the future that might or might not happen.

Often appears as...

A group of people united by some common factor, especially at a specific event.

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Possible but not very likely.

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Subject to chance.

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Conditional Future

Not a Guarantee

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