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Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.
John Polkinghorne I knew it to be very doubtful whether the Cabinet, Parliament, and the country would take this view on the outbreak of war, and through the whole of this week I had in view the probable contingency that we should not decide at the critical moment to support France. Edward Grey It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency. Penelope Lively The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine. Heinz R. Pagels |
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