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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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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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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity. ↗

— Alain Badiou

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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit. ↗

— Bodhidharma

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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.' ↗

— Vince Cable

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One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences. ↗

— Raymond E. Feist

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Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

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