Some scholars have even argued that an Epicurean egoistic hedonism, however foresighted it may be, must logically be self-defeating.
They were foresighted and saved this wealth for the generations to come, like parents who are saving for their children".
In manufacturing his own pocket watches (expected to soar close to $1 million each), he emulated the antiques' foresighted gears and sensors for tracking moon phases and temperatures.
This was hardly because the Met was foresighted enough to present it.
"I just think that it is a sad commentary," Mr. Paterson said, adding, "How much more foresighted would it have been if legislators from both parties put aside the politics, because once you get into recession or deep deficit, there is no politics?
Against his objections, the US dollar was made the global currency, and Keynes' foresighted idea for a new institution to more equitably balance the interests of creditor and debtor countries was rejected.
His decision to establish himself as a Jew among the ravages of the Reich was astonishingly foresighted; he was among the few to understand postwar Germany and Europe right at their inception, compelled by Winston Churchill's speech in Zurich inviting Germany and France to build a "new Europe" on the ashes of war.
Because I was a child, I didn't understand the depth of the degradation and deprivation my parents suffered, or how courageous and foresighted my mother had been to smuggle a sewing machine into camp, which permitted her to make modest curtains for our bare quarters.
You might be foresighted enough to carry a guidebook with you, but a guidebook's listings can grow stale faster than a croissant.
Ms. Kohda, however, contends that a crash is hardly implausible -- and her previous books have proved foresighted, if only by chance.
