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I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation.
Mary Schmich
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Death
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Grief
Good Things
Gift
Mother
Energy
Strangers
Visitation
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Tenderness
Feel
Renewed
Surprising
Foreseen
Friends
Mandolin
Sweetness
Deeper
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The odds were against me when I arrived at Central Arkansas. I was barely 6-foot-2 and didn't have a scholarship. But I always felt I could make it to the NBA; it was as if I had foreseen my future, and I knew I would make it.
Scottie Pippen
Future
Me
Odds
Would
Could
Had
Scholarship
Knew
Arkansas
Make
Felt
Always
Arrived
Were
Foreseen
Central
Against
Barely
NBA
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
Kenneth Clark
Man
Architecture
Logical
Inventions
Could
Opera
Gothic
Been
Western
Foreseen
Any
Process
Next
Strangest
Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
Freya Stark
Fear
Pain
Else
Hunger
Someone
Sorrow
Known
Makes
Causes
Foreseen
Debt
Effects
Which
Us
If I'd been living in Berlin in 1933-34, could I possibly have foreseen the Holocaust and all the corollary horrors of World War II? And if I had, would I have done anything about it? I also started to wonder: how does a culture slip its moorings?
Erik Larson
War
Culture
World
Living
Corollary
Slip
Berlin
Possibly
Would
About
Horrors
Could
Had
Also
Does
How
Been
Foreseen
Wonder
Done
Anything
Holocaust
Started
World War
World War II
We never could have foreseen the success of 'Babel.' It's not like banjo records were soaring up the charts, you know.
Ted Dwane
Success
You
Charts
Records
Could
Never
Like
Know
Were
Foreseen
Up
Banjo
Soaring
Babel
Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events.
Brian Ferneyhough
Change
Events
Result
Enough
Scene
Vast
Come
Reunification
Foreseen
German
Which
Sea
Sea Change
Naturally
Associated
Football was much, much more than I hoped it would be. If I dreamed as a kid, I could never have foreseen such amazing things.
David Villa
Amazing
Kid
Hoped
Would
Would-Be
Dreamed
More
Could
Never
Football
Amazing Things
Foreseen
Than
Much
Things
Our founding fathers could not have foreseen that freedom of the press might eventually be threatened just as much by media consolidation as by government.
Marshall Herskovitz
Government
Freedom
Fathers
Our
Press
Consolidation
Threatened
Could
Foreseen
Just
Just As Much
Might
Much
Media
Eventually
Founding
Founding Fathers
What's important about me is that I really have, in ways I never could have foreseen when I was young, a writing career that's reached a lot of different places.
Francisco Goldman
Me
Writing
Important
Young
Ways
About
Could
Never
Reached
Lot
Foreseen
Different
Places
Really
Different Places
Career