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• Happy will be the men who, having the power and the love and the benevolent forecast to [create a park], will do it. They will not be forgotten. The trees and their lovers will sing their praises, and generations yet unborn will rise up and call them blessed.

  John Muir

  Blessed, Men, Tree

  John Muir (1988). “Northwest Passages - From the Pen of John Muir: In California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska”

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• A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its elderly. Just as surely, the future of a society may be forecast by how it cares for its young.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Elderly, Civilization, Political

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1987). “Family and Nation: The Godkin Lectures, Harvard University”, Harcourt

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• We are not, of course, optimistic about our chances of success. Some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain to overtake us before the end of the century. (The inability to forecast exactly which one - whether plague, famine, the poisoning of the oceans, drastic climatic change, or some disaster entirely unforeseen - is hardly grounds for complacency.)

  John Holdren

  War, Ocean, Optimistic

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• You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.

  Nate Silver

  Trying, Want, Influence

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• There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men.

  Germaine Greer

  Men, Shipping, Internet

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• William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.

  Willa Cather

  Personality, Storm, Horizon

  Willa Cather (2014). “A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.

  Salman Rushdie

  Europe, England, World

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• You don't need to know this - but here goes: due to some acquired infantilism, I feel compelled to fall asleep listening to the radio. On a good night, I'll push the frail barque of my psyche off into the waters of Lethe accompanied by the midnight newsreader - on a bad one, it's the shipping forecast.

  Will Self

  Good Night, Goodnight, Fall

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• The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.

  John Naisbitt

  Future, Trying, Way

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• The weather records of the U.S.A. are the best kept and most accessible in the world, thanks to consistent government/military taxpayer support. There are longer European data sets, but the U.S.A. data is enough to forecast major extreme events.

  Piers Corbyn

  Military, Data, Weather

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• No one can forecast the economy with certainty.

  Jamie Dimon

  Economy, Certainty

  "Improving Housing Market Driving Economy: Jamie Dimon" by Margo D. Beller, www.cnbc.com. March 28, 2012.

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• During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers.

  Lawrence Klein

  Support, Pennsylvania, Research

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• I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become so temporal, so specific and personal, as if we each have our own weather system and what we listen to is our individual forecast.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Years, Weather, Individual

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• Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Weather, Foundation

  "Random Thoughts". Column at Jewish World Review, www.jewishworldreview.com. April 06, 1999.

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• I think most people think that a spiritual path or growing spiritually means that all of a sudden you'll be able to forecast the six lotto numbers and all your bills will be paid.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Spiritual, Mean, Thinking

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• Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Christian Inspirational, Trying

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.40, Discovery House

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• The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of 'decency.' The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Science, Names, White

  1926 The Art of Being Ruled.

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• Experts kill me. Economic experts, that is. Corporations, foundations, publications and governments pay them by the bucketful, and they fill buckets with forecasts that change more frequently than white-collar, workers do shirts. What Lies Ahead is the usual title. What Lies would often be more appropriate. If women's hemlines changed as rapidly as an economist's forecasts, the fashion people and the textile industry would be more profitable than any other. In fact, if all the country's economists were laid end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Country, Fashion, Lying

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• Saudi Arabian oil production is at or very near its peak sustainable volume (if it did not, in fact peak almost 25 years ago), and is likely to go into decline in the very foreseeable future. There is only a small probability that Saudi Arabia will ever deliver the quantities of petroleum that are assigned to it in all the major forecasts of world oil production and consumption.

  Matthew Simmons

  Years, Oil, Saudi Arabia

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• Weathermen merely forecast rain to keep everyone else off the golf course

  Larry David

  Witty, Rain, Golf

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• Tonight's forecast: DARK. Continued mostly dark tonight, turning to wildly scattered light in the morning

  George Carlin

  Morning, Dark, Light

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• It is evident, therefore, that one of the most fundamental problems of psychology is that of investigating the laws of mental growth. When these laws are known, the door of the future will in a measure be opened; determination of the child's present status will enable us to forecast what manner of adult he will become.

  Lewis Terman

  Determination, Children, Future

  Lewis Madison Terman (1919). “The Intelligence of School Children: How Children Differ in Ability, the Use of Mental Tests in School Grading and the Proper Education of Exceptional Children”

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• It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.

  Mark Twain

  Rain, Weather, Religion

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.513, Courier Corporation

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• Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not - we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household.

  Luke Bryan

  Growing Up, Dad, Rain

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• Despite the forecast, live like it's Spring.

  Lilly Pulitzer

  Spring, Happy Spring, First Day Of Spring

  FaceBook post by Lilly Pulitzer from Mar 03, 2015

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