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• The modern world needs people with a complex identity who are intellectually autonomous and prepared to cope with uncertainty; who are able to tolerate ambiguity and not be driven by fear into a rigid, single-solution approach to problems, who are rational, foresightful and who look for facts; who can draw inferences and can control their behavior in the light of foreseen consequences, who are altruistic and enjoy doing for others, and who understand social forces and trends.

  Robert J. Havighurst

  Light, People, Identity

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• Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be possible, will bring nothing but good into the world; that it shall abridge distance, make all parts of the globe accessible, bring men into closer relation with each other, advance civilization, and hasten the promised era in which there shall be nothing but peace and goodwill among all men.

  Octave Chanute

  Distance, Airplane, Successful

  Octave Chanute (1894). "El progreso de las máquinas voladoras"

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• He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Long, Littles, Sat

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.874, Pan Macmillan

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• Debemos ser escuchados: por encima de nuestra experiencia personal, hemos asistido colectivamente a un acontecimiento fundamental inesperado, fundamental precisamente por inesperado, no previsto por nadie. Sucedió, por lo tanto puede volver a suceder: éste es el núcleo de lo que tenemos que decir. Puede ocurrir, y puede ocurrir en todas partes.

  Primo Levi

  Events, Fundamentals, Unexpected

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• Han pasado muchos años desde aquella noche. La pared de la escalera por la que había visto subir poco a poco la luz de su vela fue derribada hace mucho tiempo. Y en mí también han perecido muchas cosas que imaginaba que durarían para siempre, y han surgido otras nuevas, dando origen a nuevas penas y nuevas alegrías que en aquellos días no habría podido prever, del mismo modo que ahora las antiguas son difíciles de comprender.

  Marcel Proust

  Wall, Night, Light

  Marcel Proust (2008). “The Senses of Consciousness: Swann's Way in Half”, p.33, Lulu.com

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• A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken. An overwhelming longing to rest and remain at peace by Bilbo's side in Rivendell filled all his heart. At last with an effort he spoke, and wondered to hear his own words, as if some other will was using his small voice. "I will take the Ring," he said, "though I do not know the way.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Corazón, Voz, Largo

  La Comunidad del Anillo bk. 2, cap. 2 (1954)

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• Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things that are merely commonplace to existence. If we could hover over this great city, remove the roofs, and peep in at the things going on, it would make all fiction, with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions flat, stale and unprofitable.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Cities, Mind

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• Sólo hay una diferencia entre un mal economista y uno bueno: el mal economista se limita al efecto visible; el buen economista tiene en cuenta tanto el efecto que puede verse como los efectos que deben preverse.

  Federico Bastiat

  Differences, Economist, Accounts

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• Por fin, Lady Evenstar, la más bella de este mundo, y la más amada, mi mundo se desvanece. He aquí que nos hemos reunido y hemos gastado, y ahora se acerca el momento del pago". Arwen sabía bien lo que él pretendía, y lo había previsto hacía mucho tiempo; no obstante, su dolor la dominaba. "¿Abandonarás entonces, señor, antes de tiempo, a tu pueblo que vive de tu palabra?", dijo.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Grief, Long, People

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• No, no, one can imagine nothing in the world, not the least thing. Everything is composed of so many isolated details that are not to be foreseen. In one's imagining one passes over them and hasty as one is doesn't notice that they are missing. But realities are slow and indescribably detailed.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Reality, Missing, Details

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• Where does a story truly begin? In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments when we can, in looking back, say that everything started. Yet there are moments when fate intersects with our daily lives, setting in motion a sequence of events whose outcome we could never have foreseen.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Fate, Cutting, Events

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “A Bend In The Road”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a long time prevented him from speaking. Falling on his knees by her bed. He held his wife's hand to his lips and kissed it, and her hand responded to his kisses with weak movement of finger. Meanwhile, at the foot of the bed, in the midwife's expert hands, like the flame of a lamp, flickered the life of a human being who had never existed before.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Fall, Kissing

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• Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write

  George Sand

  Queens, Powerful, Writing

  George Sand "Les ëuvres Choisies de George Sand. Las obras escogidas de George Sand", Biblioteca de Alejandría

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• El futuro de las naciones no puede congelarse. . . no puede preverse. Si queremos lograr algo en nuestro tiempo, debemos abordar nuestro problema sabiendo que no hay nada rígido ni inmutable en los asuntos humanos. La historia es una historia de crecimiento, decadencia y cambio. Si no se toman medidas, si no se permite el cambio por medios pacíficos, éste llegará de todos modos, y con violencia.

  Herbert Hoover

  Peace, Future, Mean

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• That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen . . . . It moreover equally enables the general and state governments to originate the amendment of errors as they may be pointed out by the experience on one side or on the other.

  James Madison

  Errors, Government, Sides

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.204

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• What plan for the regulation of the militia may be pursued by the national government is impossible to be foreseen...The project of disciplining all the militia of the United States is as futile as it would be injurious if it were capable of being carried into execution... Little more can reasonably be aimed at with the respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed and equipped ; and in order to see that this be not neglected, it will be necessary to assemble them once or twice in the course of a year.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Respect, Government, Order

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• Ser un empollón está de moda. En general, se entiende que los teléfonos inteligentes no nacieron de los deportistas. La era digital fue prevista por un grupo de hombres de manga corta, camisa blanca y botones, y sus equivalentes femeninas, que diseñaron lo que ahora es omnipresente.

  J. J. Abrams

  Success, White, Smartphones

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• I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.

  Mary Schmich

  Mother, Sibling, Grief

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.28, Agate Digital

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• El propósito de Dios es la causa soberana de todo lo bueno que hay en el hombre, y de todo lo bueno externo, interno y eterno que viene al hombre. No las obras pasadas, porque los hombres son elegidos desde siempre; no las obras presentes, porque Jacob fue amado y elegido antes de nacer; ni las obras previstas, porque todos los hombres se corrompieron en Adán. Toda la felicidad presente del creyente y toda su felicidad futura brotan del propósito eterno de Dios.

  Thomas Brooks

  Primavera, Pasado, Hombres

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• El dolor, el miedo y el hambre son efectos de causas que se pueden prever y conocer; pero la tristeza es una deuda que otro contrae por nosotros.

  Freya Stark

  Pain, Sorrow, Causes

  Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.124, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• Antes de llegar a la última línea, sin embargo, ya había comprendido que nunca saldría de aquella habitación, pues estaba previsto que la ciudad de los espejos (o espejismos) sería borrada por el viento y desterrada de la memoria de los hombres en el preciso momento en que Aureliano Babilonia terminara de descifrar los pergaminos, y que todo lo escrito en ellos era irrepetible desde tiempo inmemorial y para siempre, porque las razas condenadas a cien años de soledad no tenían una segunda oportunidad sobre la tierra.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Recuerdos, Oportunidad, Hombres

  Publicación en FaceBook de Gabriel García Márquez del 16 de Jun de 2013

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• Every phenomenon, however trifling it be, has a cause, and a mind infinitely powerful, and infinitely well-informed concerning the laws of nature could have foreseen it from the beginning of the ages. If a being with such a mind existed, we could play no game of chance with him; we should always lose.

  Henri Poincare

  Powerful, Science, Law

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• The Deluge: A punishment inflicted on the human race by an all-knowing God, who, through not having foreseen the wickedness of men, repented of having made them, and drowned them once for all to make them better - an act which, as we all know, was accompanied by the greatest success.

  Voltaire

  Men, Knowing, Race

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• En un gobierno virtuoso, y más especialmente en tiempos como los actuales, los cargos públicos son lo que deben ser: cargas para quienes son nombrados para ellos que sería un error rechazar, aunque se prevea que les traerán un intenso trabajo y grandes pérdidas privadas.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Loss, Government, Times Like These

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). "Luz y Libertad: Reflexiones sobre la búsqueda de la felicidad", p.44, Modern Library

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• A lot of Democrats have said that raising the minimum wage is both good economics and good politics. The nonpartisan CBO issued a report today saying that raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour would cost the economy about 500,000 jobs...Why should we trust Democrats on anything when they couldn't have foreseen that this would be the case?

  S. E. Cupp

  Money, Jobs, Work

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