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But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction. ↗

— Wayne White

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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

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Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

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Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable. ↗

— Walter Lang

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Many defense experts have predicted that we face no greater threat from a single country than from Iran. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

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If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can. ↗

— Bobby Knight

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We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobody could have predicted what he would become to our culture. ↗

— Phil Knight

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