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Tag Name "Foregone" (11)

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Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?
Herman Melville
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Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It was just like him, she thought with him, a happy ending was always a foregone conclusion. But such was the power of his faith that when she was with him she found herself believing in happy endings, too.
Sharon Kay Penman
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The cost of anything is the foregone alternative.
Walter Johnson
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I do not support citizenship for those already here illegally. Those who cut the line and broke our laws as their first act entering this country have foregone that opportunity.
Carly Fiorina
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The Master was entirely free from four things: prejudice, foregone conclusions, obstinacy, and egoism.
Confucius
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If time is the dimension of change, then space is the dimension of coexisting difference. And that is both a source of nourishment (something that the globalisation gurus seem altogether to have foregone), and a challenge (how negotiate difference, how to address inequality, and so forth).
Doreen Massey
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It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity rather than falling so far short of it.
Peter R. Orszag
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The NCI sent (,)...to review our funding(,)...people connected with the nuclear establishment...It was a pretty much foregone conclusion, that if you send people in to review the funding, who stand most to be hurt by this research, the funding will be denied.
Rosalie Bertell
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Rocky is a very predictable movie. The ending is a foregone conclusion.
Sylvester Stallone
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Something like Shakespeare in Love, which became such an established hit that it now seems like a foregone conclusion... but it really wasn't. The script was around for a very, very long time and had people chickening out all the time.
Colin Firth