Whether or not human groups make functional enough, foresightful enough decisions at any given time, we have the unique capacity to do so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Education For Sanity] Reference

Nothing's actually changed I was even foresightful enough to leave my bed made with fresh linen for my return... but I see it as bright and new-to-me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Well, I'm back] Reference

Lovable though he may have been, however, he was, at thirty-three, unmarried, and he had only a few compunctions about leaving less foresightful buddies behind to whine and howl about the eventual loss of logging jobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas]

Wurman is a seventysomething graphic designer and author of 81 books, who garnered fame and adulation among the elite in technology, art and entertainment with his foresightful, insightful TED conferences of the 1990s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Son Of TED] Reference

Epimetheus, ignoring his brother's foresightful warning not to accept any gifts from Zeus, embraced Pandora and opened the box, whereupon the curses flew out and infected human life with toil, misery, suffering, disease, and death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Do We Have to Choose Between Hope and Reality?] Reference

Once the worlds leading producer of heroin, carrots, and rope grade hemp, is now a radioactive slaggy area, thanks to a foresightful Reagan administration, which bombed the area with radiation bombs, which consumed the life force of everything in ten kilometer radii.    From Wordnik.com.  [What would you do?] Reference

Dan the lawyer by sstruble on May 22, 2008 - 12: 09am and only a lawyer as foresightful and capable as Danny could have helped the World Wide Web (W3C) consortium navigate its way to a successful revision of its intellectual property licensing policy, making it possibly the first ICT standards organization to have a strong and simple royalty-free licensing policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama and McCain Surrogates Describe Two Very Different Tech Presidents] Reference

The men who did the tasks were not creatures of the day, but foresightful beyond the average of mortals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization] Reference

By contrast, if Mr King and his allies stick to their last, next year may see them looking both resolute and foresightful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

The second suggests that we, as a society, may well be able to do something about this -- but only if we're clever and foresightful.    From Wordnik.com.  [MoneyBlogNetwork] Reference

But, though an old West Pointer, he was neither a foresightful organizer nor fit to exercise any of the executive power which he held as the constitutional commander-in-chief by land and sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray] Reference

This work should at once command the attention of those persons who are of the foresightful class who see beyond the interests of the day, and take account of the needs of the generations to come.    From Wordnik.com.  [Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization] Reference

Had colonial powers been foresightful, they would have prepared their worldwide fiefdoms for a coming age of national independence, allocating power more fairly instead of setting privileged minorities over subject majorities, integrating ethnic groups to build a national consciousness, building up local resources and easing countries into the modern world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palestine Blogs aggregator] Reference

As our less foresightful politicians cry “socialism” at the prospect of “the taxpayer’s” (sic) money bailing out corporations, we have socialism in action on our tv screens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cradle to Grave Television] Reference

I think it is very foresightful of you to be taking this “what about the next potential military engagement” view of the Democratic candidates’ positions towards the use of force.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » My John Edwards Problem, And At Least Some of Ours] Reference

In case anyone thinks the headline is too strong, you should know that Ben Stein’s parents were very foresightful, and the name on his birth certificate is actually Ethically Challenged Ben Stein.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ethically Challenged Ben Stein Fired from NYT - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged: the greatest pulp novel ever written, and disturbingly foresightful, and also I find Rand’s harmony of rightly understood interests more convincing as a foundation for libertarian than utilitarian arguments.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Books that Influenced Me the Most] Reference