“ Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event. ”
- George Gissing- Copy
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“ Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ I don't believe in the Prophecy. I haven't read it, and I won't, because it's wrong. I know. I'm in the Hall of Fame. ”
- Joe Morgan- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. ”
- Bible- Copy
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“ The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy — when properly aged. ”
- Hubert H. Humphrey- Copy
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“ The are and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ Prophecy today is hardly the romantic business that it used to be. The old tools of the trade, like the sword, the hair shirt, and the long fast in the wilderness, have given way to more contemporary, mundane instruments of doom — the book, the picket and the petition, the sit-in at City Hall. ”
- Jane Kramer- Copy
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“ The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing… ”
- Margaret Mead- Copy
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“ The knowledge of the causal power of thought is the basis of all their (Hebrew) prophecies, as it is the basis of all real wisdom and power. ”
- James Allen- Copy
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“ Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be. ”
- Fitz Greene Halleck- Copy
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“ The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence. ”
- Neil Gaiman- Copy
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“ The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert, and so on. ”
- Noam Chomsky- Copy
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“ Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
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“ Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest. ”
- Marilyn Ferguson- Copy
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“ You can make a good living from soothsaying, but not from truthsaying. ”
- Georg Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy. ”
- Hubert Humphrey- Copy
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