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Aesop
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
Amelia E. Barr Jen Vedder's Wife
Forethought spares afterthought.
Andrew Alden
Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent.
Anya Seton The Turquoise
It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.
Charles Buxton
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
Chinese proverb
If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
Confucius
Plan ahead or find trouble on the doorstep.
Cree Indian Proverb
Only after the last tree has been cut down,Only after the last river has been poisoned,Only after the last fish has been caught,Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.
David Russell
The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
Eric Hoffer The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
Eugene Forsey
I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.
Eugene Ionesco
You can only predict things after they have happened.
Euripedes Alcestis
What we look for does not come to pass;God finds a way for what none foresaw.
George Eliot Silas Marner
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
Glen Beaman
Stubborness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.
Henry R. Luce
Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Herbert Spencer
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
J. R. R. Tolkien The Hobbit
Where did you go to, if I may ask? said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along. To look ahead, said he. And what brought you back in the nick of time? Looking behind, said he.
John D. Barrrow The Origin of the Universe
We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past.
John F. Kennedy
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
 
 
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