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Contingency is a very important concept in evolution, both prebiotic and biological. As already stated, contingency is the convergence of several factors, which, although independent from one another, act simultaneously in a given point/time and by that action, determine the course of the event.
Pier Luigi Luisi • The Emergence of Life: From Chemical Origins to Synthetic Biology
Collaborative Fund • Perception
have that last, partial and lop-sided triumph turned, for reasons of decency and bureaucracy, into a malicious accident is to compound failures with final failure.
Al Alvarez • The Savage God: A Study of Suicide
There is, as it happens, a word for this: zemblanity, the opposite of serendipity*.* Pandemic Time is suffused with zemblanity; it is a temporality shaped by a sense of certain doom, foreseen and amenable to some mitigation, but not entirely avertable.
Venkatesh Rao • Pandemic Time
the observation ‘Things have gone badly for him’ is something that each person adds for himself.
Epictetus • Discourses, Fragments, Handbook (Oxford World's Classics)
La muerte también es karma destino; ese espacio y esa forma, el tiempo en el que te toca morir, ha sido un acuerdo previo contigo. No se trata de suponer si son buenas o malas las experiencias que trae el karma destino. Llegan, como todo en la vida, para enseñar.
Fernando Broca • 8 Leyes universales : Guía para alcanzar la plenitud (Spanish Edition)
En el karma destino están además algunos eventos muy puntuales, circunstancias de gran suerte o de enorme tragedia, algunos accidentes y algunas buenas cosas que tienen como condición que un pequeño detalle puede modificar por completo la historia de tu vida.