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• But little Mouse, you are not alone,
  In proving foresight may be vain:
  The best laid schemes of mice and men
  Go often askew,
  And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
  For promised joy!
  Still you are blest, compared with me!

  Robert Burns

  Pain, Grief, Men

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• It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.

  Seneca the Younger

  Light, People, Might

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• As a soldier, I've served with the most brave people in an institution that's built on integrity, honor, and duty. This is why I'm working very hard to support Senator Bernie Sanders - not only to get through the Democratic primary, but also to win the presidency. He is the only candidate on both sides who understands the cost of war, who has that foresight to keep our country safe, and who will make sure that our military power is not being when and where it shouldn't be.

  Tulsi Gabbard

  Country, Military, War

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others,, in order that they may assist us on like occasions; so that the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Kindness, Reality, Men

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• In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing. With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Gratitude, Night, Long

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• The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.

  Nikola Tesla

  Accurate, Shows

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “Famous Scientific Illusions”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• There is an element in which anxiety co-represents with aspects of my personality I wouldnt want to give up. It allows you to have foresight. I may not be as empathetic. Its hard to figure out the difference between pathology and personality.

  Scott Stossel

  Giving Up, Differences, Personality

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• Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Eye, Sight

  The Blind Watchmaker ch. 1 (1986) See Paley 3

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• Vengeance is without foresight.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Vengeance

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• Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn from errors. The reactive approach - see what happens, limit damages, and learn from experience - is unworkable. Rather, we must take a proactive approach. This requires foresight to anticipate new types of threats and a willingness to take decisive preventive action and to bear the costs (moral and economic) of such actions.

  Nick Bostrom

  Opportunity, Errors, Risk

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• Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy to interest them in taking care of plants and especially of animals. Nothing awakens foresight in a small child such as this. When he knows that animals have need of him, that little plants will dry up if he does not water them, he binds together with a new thread of love today's passing moments with those of the morrow.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Animal, Dry Up

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• Many futurists use a checklist approach to make sure they're covering a sufficiently wide set of topics in terms of both research and brainstorming during a foresight exercise.

  Jamais Cascio

  Exercise, Covering, Use

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• I think Nature, if she interests herself much about her children, must often feel that, like the miserable Frankenstein, with her experimenting among the elements of humanity, she has brought beings into existence who have no business here; who can do none of her work, and endure none of her favours; whose life is only suffering; and whose action is one long protest against the ill foresight which flung them into consciousness.

  James Anthony Froude

  Children, Thinking, Long

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The nemesis of faith”, p.78

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• Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Imperfect Things, Economics, Prevision

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.312, Princeton University Press

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• The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Experts, Financial, Poor

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.159, Princeton University Press

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• In respect to foresight and firmness, the people are more prudent, more stable, and have better judgement than princes.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  People, Judgement, Prudent

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• The kind of "blind obedience" once theologized as the ultimate step to holiness, is itself blind. It blinds a person to the insights and foresight and moral perspective of anyone other than an authority figure.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Perspective, Holiness, Steps

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• Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self-denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love.

  George Eliot

  Motherhood, Vanity, Self

  George Eliot (1876). “Scenes of clerical life”, p.267

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• If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care for human beings.... What I am condemning is that one power, with a president [George W. Bush] who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Thinking, America

  "Mandela: U.S. wants holocaust", www.cnn.com. January 30, 2003.

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• Let us not have puny thoughts. Let us think on a greater scale. Let us not have those of the future decry our smallness of concept and lack of foresight.

  Adolph Murie

  Thinking, Scales, Greater

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• At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer Ansel Adams has been visionary in his efforts to preserve this country's wild and scenic areas, both in film and on Earth. Drawn to the beauty of nature's monuments, he is regarded by environmentalists as a monument himself, and by photographers as a national institution. It is through his foresight and fortitude that so much of America has been saved for future Americans.

  Ansel Adams

  Country, Skills, America

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• For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the children of that blind father; a passion, that carries us to commit errors with as much ease as whirlwinds move feathers, and begets in us an unwearied industry to the attainment of what we desire.

  Izaak Walton

  Wise, Children, Father

  John Bunyan, Izaak Walton (2010). “The Pilgrim's Progress & the Lives of Donne and Herbert”, p.330, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The sun of her [Great Britain] glory is fast descending to the horizon. Her philosophy has crossed the Channel, her freedom the Atlantic, and herself seems passing to that awful dissolution, whose issue is not given human foresight to scan.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Philosophy, Issues, Horizon

  Thomas Jefferson (1832). “Notes on the State of Virginia”, p.69

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• Raising children uses every bit of your being - your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them, and you have to use all of this while trying to figure out how to discipline them.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Children, Heart, Discipline

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• There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their own.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Garden, Blessing, Two

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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