| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f16e2b0 | This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: 'At the time, no one knew what was coming. | history prescience | Haruki Murakami | |
| 7fe6dee | "Well, we come here to the Fastnesses mostly to learn what questions not to ask." "But you're the Answerers!" "You don't see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Foretelling?" "No--" "To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question." | prescience divinity | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| f0ebb25 | It would not be an exaggeration to say that the land question in Zimbabwe is the single most decisive one. | politics land-reform land-reform-in-zimbabwe prescience zimbabwe land | Christopher Hitchens |