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If philosophy or astrology were revealed to the ancients, then the sayings of philosophers or astrologers and the prophecies of inspired seers are equivalent.
In the 1960s, some very vivid prophecies about the relationship of telecommunications and the city were made.
However, there is reason to warn against too hasty a conclusion in this regard and against those very pessimistic prophecies.
To this extent, the variables used in surveys represent self-fulfilling prophecies.
When they are not reckless, our gambles about practices amount to self-fulfilling prophecies: they change our relation to nature or to other people so as to make themselves more real.
I use the word adds here because the real difficulties, the important contextual conditions, the soil in which such prophecies flourish, have to do with power and dominance.
In spite of numerous prophecies of the imminent death of many languages, linguists always find a handful of old people who still speak them and can be competent consultants.
The series of high medieval prophecies under discussion was transmitted, with a large degree of variation, as much by manuscript illustrations as by any common text.
The dynamics of the probabilities of pessimism around business- and growth-cycle turning points may shed light on the role of self-fulfilling prophecies in subsequent economic fluctuations.
A wider "religion of nature" facilitated much wider powers, such as enabling magicians to make reliable prophecies on the basis of their ability to decipher images.
The problem is that images can function as self-fulfilling prophecies and beautiful images produced by very skilled architects are in themselves a sign and a tool of power.
Rather, the bulk of the poem presents the reflections of a skeptical female voice, who doubts her friend's prophecies, and who extends that doubt to all supernatural religious prophecies.
Again the gloomy prophecies were made, and again they were disproved.
Most of his gloom has been justified, and almost all his prophecies have come true.
Indeed, some may be moving towards self-fulfilling prophecies.
