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  • In a fury of speed, tempered by caution and the precision of careful foreplanning, Loyse set to work.

    Witch World Norton, Andre 1963

  • For whensoever similar factors meet and act in relation to each other, similar consequences must inevitably ensue: the Soul adopting or foreplanning the given conditions accomplishes the due outcome and links all into a total.

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

  • Unless the foreplanning power alone is to be charged with the vice in such Souls, we have no ground of accusation, no claim to redress: the blame lies on the Soul exercising its choice.

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

  • There is in fact no planning There; we speak of reasoned purpose in the world of things only to convey that the universe is of the character which in the later order would point to a wise purposing; Providence implies that things are as, in the later order, a competent foreplanning would produce them.

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

  • So you work ruin among those men who serve ideals, not foreplanning ruin, not desiring to ruin anything, not even having sufficient wit to perceive the ruin when it is accomplished.

    The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages James Branch Cabell 1918

  • "No, not so very young, for my society is maturing you, and already you are foreplanning and talking the follies of a man in middle life."

    Figures of Earth James Branch Cabell 1918

  • Febble explained at length, carefully, patiently, and with great intelligence as commonly understood, not Dembski’s reduced definition, that “choosing between” does not require an “agent” – that it does not require intention, foreplanning, etc.

    The Sad state of Intelligent Design: Or why it shuns 'peer review' - The Panda's Thumb 2007

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