#foresee

Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

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As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million. ↗

— George Wald

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The mind cannot foresee its own advance. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me. ↗

— Clayton Christensen

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Broadcast TV is still the mothership and it will be for the foreseeable future. Audiences may be declining slightly but revenues are going up and profits are going up. ↗

— Leslie Moonves

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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. ↗

— George Orwell

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War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world. ↗

— Evel Knievel

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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee. ↗

— Robert Falcon Scott

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