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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

Topics: African-American Catholic Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Contingent Enter First Large Many Movement Priests Prior Rights Rights Movement Segregated Seminary Were Would 1920S

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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

Topics: All Things Conditioned Contingent Divine Exist Manner Nature Necessity Nothing Operate Particular Things Universe

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For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.

~Brian Eno

Topics: Afterwards Always Contingent First Getting Kind Line Me Melody Should Sound Then

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Obviously, a lot of TV shows are based on chronological episode viewing, and the stories are contingent upon watching it in order. Syndicated shows, you don't have to watch in order. You're just watching characters that don't change that much.

~Cary Fukunaga

Topics: Based Change Characters Contingent Episode Just Lot Much Obviously Order Shows Stories Tv Tv Shows Viewing Watch Watching You

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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Art Being Contingent Eternal Fleeting Half Modernity One Half Other Transient

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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Art Being Changing Constantly Contingent Despised Element Eternal Fugitive Half Make Make Up Modernity Must Neglected One Half Other Transitory Up Which

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Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

~Charles Baudelaire

Topics: Art Contingent Eternal Fugitive Half Modernity Other Transitory Which

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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

Topics: Almost Bring Circumstances Commerce Contingent Flourishes Our Precarious Shores Transitory Waves Winds

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The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers.

~Chris Hardwick

Topics: About Consumers Contingent Creative Instead Large Less Movement

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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

Topics: Contingent Disdain Empathy Happening Likelihood Our Proximity Rather Should Stem Suffering Us

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