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

Benjamin Cardozo
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Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

James Allen
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Success is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

H. H. Swami Tejomayananda
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The biggest peril the over-55s face is discouragement. Don't let this become a self-fulfilling prophecy - it's just an extra four weeks.

Richard Bayer
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It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. We told them that these things would happen. It's frustrating.

Karen Woodall
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Funds are still keen, with the end of the month likely to bring even more money to commodities due to the good performance they've had during January. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy at the moment.

Robin Bhar
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This tends to create a self-fulfilling prophecy.

John Lister
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The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Joel Barker
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If someone is told from the time they are a child that they can't learn or they are stupid, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Debra Conner
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PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.

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

Ruth Hubbard
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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.

Ralph Ellison
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Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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Sectarianism has become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Rosemary Hollis
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Years ago, Channel Seven said they couldn't put it on because it just wouldn't work and it was a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Michael Bowers
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That sends a huge message to the students in districts that are not performing. It inflicts a self-fulfilling prophecy on those districts motivationally.

Cheryl Durwin
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I don't like to be the go-to expert on biblical prophecy.

Kirk Cameron
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Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

George Gissing
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Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

Neil Armstrong
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