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" Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach. "

Walter Lippmann

" America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description. "

" Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. "

" A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.' "

Paul Watzlawick

" Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy. "

" Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides. "

" I do believe in prophecy. "

" If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. "

" Indeed, the hereditary gift of prophecy will go to the grave with me. "

" It's almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy: the great comedy that comes from great pain. "

Brian Dunkleman

" I've certainly written a lot of things that have more or less come true. But I don't have a gift for prophecy. "

Charles McCarry

" Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event. "

" Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience. "

Benjamin Cardozo

" Prophecy is an intercept from the mind of an all-knowing and all-seeing and all-powerful God. "

Joel C. Rosenberg

" The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy. "

Hubert H. Humphrey

" To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. "

" Well, with prophecy you got to see what happens. "

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