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“Outsiders became keen to join an organization [European Community] that offered attractive bribes to the poor. Greece did so in 1981 and Spain and Portugal in 1986.” - written before 2003.”

Book:The New Penguin History of The World

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“I am sure that you have had, as we all have, that mysterious experience of prescience--a moment when, beyond reason and cause, at a word, or a flicker of an eyelid, or at anything at all, one has a sudden foreboding--of what,one does not know,. I am not a religious man; but sometimes I am nearly tempted to believe that the gods do speak to us, and that only in unguarded moments do we listen.”

God Prescience

Book:Augustus

Source: Augustus

“It's a subtle and powerful thing, prescience. The future becomes now. To be sighted in the land of the blind carries its own perils. If you try to interpret what you see for the blind, you tend to forget that the blind possess an inherent movement conditioned by their blindness. They are like a monstrous machine moving along its own path. They have their own momentum, their own fixations. I fear the blind, Stil. I fear them. They can so easily crush anything in their path.”

Fear Future Dune Prescience

Book:Children of Dune

Source: Children of Dune

“And he realized with an abrupt sense shock that he had been giving more and more reliance to prescient memory and it had weakened him for this particular emergency.”

Prescience

Book:DUNE

Source: DUNE

“We are not looking at a new state of matter but at a newly recognized relationship between consciousness and matter, which provides a more penetrating insight into the workings of prescience. The oracle shapes a projected inner universe to produce new external probabilities out of forces that are not understood. There is no need to understand these forces before using them to shape the physical universe. Ancient metal workers had no need to understand the molecular and submolecular complexities of their steel, bronze, copper, gold, and tin. They invented mystical powers to describe the unknown while they continued to operate their forges and wield their hammers.”

Oracle Prescience Concsiousness

Book:Heretics of Dune

Source: Heretics of Dune

“Though it bore some semblance of a perpetual immanence; in truth, it was a prescient and persistent presence, enthralled in a cyclic temporality.”

Temporality Prescience Immanence

Author:George Josse

“Without even the safety valve of dreaming, he focused his prescient awareness, seeing it as a computation of most probable futures, but with something more, an edge of mystery - as though his mind dipped into some timeless stratum and sampled the winds of the future.”

Time Future Prescience

Author:Frank Herbert

“I hadn't learned to decipher the mysterious ways of the undermind, How occasionally it erupts into an avalanche of clarity, a sheet of snow shearing off the roof and thundering to the ground, leaving the shingles exposed, knowledge issuing a messenger to announce its arrival.”

Clarity Realization Prescience

Book:Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own

Source: Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own

“We are all just trying to be holy.”

Religion Holy Forgiveness Guilt Catholic Guilt

Book:Crush

Source: Crush

“Gates loved competing- and winning. Just as importantly, he hated losing. He thrived on competition, as long as he was playing or doing something he was good at, and relished opportunities to prove himself, physically and mentally.”

Competitive Drive

Book:Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

Source: Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

“If an enemy ship cannot be taken over by our own crews, it must be sunk! There is to be no deviation from that!”

Strategy Decisive Militaryhistory Earlymedieval Navalhistory Rulesofengagement

Book:Full Story of the Anglo-Saxon Invasion

Source: Full Story of the Anglo-Saxon Invasion

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