#foresee

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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We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur. ↗

— Dan Quayle

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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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But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for. ↗

— William H. Seward

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