{"quotes":[{"text":"Only a demon would prevent a person from saving lives or fulfilling their life mission. There is no reasoning with the devil. Stand with pride because your heart is filled with the goodness of helping others, while theirs is filled with helping themselves.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["blind","bravery","courage","devil","ego","evilness","forwarned","hater","hatred","heartless","holy-ghost","honesty","immoral","killer","liars","narcissism","predictions","quality","self-centered","stupidity","the-devil","trust-your-instinct","truthfulness","unchristlike","vanity","villians"],"id":35493,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Never make predictions, especially about the future.","author":"Casey Stengel","tags":["never","predictions","about "],"id":46428,"author_id":"Casey+Stengel"},{"text":"I'm an oracle of the past. I can accurately predict up to 1 minute in the future, by thoroughly investigating the last 2 years of your life. Also, I look like an old database – flat and full of useless info.","author":"Will Advise","tags":["accuracy","appearance","appearances","database","databases","flat","flatness","full","fullness","future","nothing","nsa","oracle","past","prediction","predictions","private","thorough","thoroughly","thoroughness","time","useless","years"],"id":65639,"author_id":"Will+Advise"},{"text":"We have reached the end of one era, and now we don't know what is all around us. Because we're already in a new era, and it is very different from the old one. Science and the world of technology are both changing everything so quickly, even our bodies. So the original ancient culture was present here, but to no avail, at this point in history it has come to stop. It still has some effect, some kind of continuity, but it cannot analyse and reformulate things, it cannot impact things with absolute strength. The age to follow will be full of dangers. It will be full of difficulties. In all likelihood, it will not be a good future for mankind. It is even possible this new era will mean the end of mankind.","author":"László Krasznahorkai","tags":["21st-century","culture","end-times","outlook","pessimism","predictions","the-future","warnings"],"id":67247,"author_id":"L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3+Krasznahorkai"},{"text":"Timing is easy to predict through the movement of the stars as they give the propensity of pure potential.","author":"Ambika Devi","tags":["astrology","astronomy","jyotish","potential","predictions","stars"],"id":69462,"author_id":"Ambika+Devi"},{"text":"Burning bridges behind you is understandable. It's the bridges before us that we burn, not realizing we may need to cross, that brings regret.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["bad-decisions","bad-past","blessings","burning-bridges","cause-and-effect","chance","crossroads","fate","fluke","future","ghost","good-intentions","happenstance","intend","luck","meet","needs","no-return","occasion","odds","outcome","pass","predictions","regrets","relations","risk","turning-point","zero-hour"],"id":94419,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.","author":"Roy Amara","tags":["estimations","future","predictions","technology"],"id":110318,"author_id":"Roy+Amara"},{"text":"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.","author":"Carl Sagan","tags":["9-11","9-11-01","99-percent","atheism","evangelicalism","fox-news","future-prediction","globalism","media","media-barons","media-of-the-united-states","mysticism","nostradamus","occupy-wall-street","outsourcing","prediction","predictions","proud-ignorance","reality-tv","reason","rupert-murdoch"],"id":128189,"author_id":"Carl+Sagan"},{"text":"But Amanda ... ” Jadina said, looking past Maylin at the young Fate. “She doesn’t ask for anything. She doesn’t even try to read the future, it’s just there. She ends up blurting things out. Starts talking about the car accident you’re going to have in three years, or your baby boy dying in child birth in a few months, or your grandmother’s funeral next year. Thing’s you can’t change even if you know about them. Things you’re happier not knowing about. People go through life, happily oblivious. If you start telling them all the horrible things that are coming, they get upset. When those horrible things start coming true, they get scared and blame you. They say you caused it. Label you witch. Even burn you at the stake. She’s safer in there.","author":"Crissy Moss","tags":["fear","future","future-prediction","predictions","prophecy"],"id":134343,"author_id":"Crissy+Moss"},{"text":"I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.","author":"William Booth","tags":["politics","predictions","religion"],"id":138887,"author_id":"William+Booth"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}