#predicted

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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Miss Rice talks very tough. We have gotten used to this nonsense. Miss Rice is a bit emotional about this, and we predicted that she would have a more emotional approach to this. ↗

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#approach #bit #emotional #gotten #miss

There was the scientific and technical progress which couldn't be predicted by the state. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#progress #scientific #state #technical #which

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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The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice. ↗

— Lactantius

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The Commonwealth has had consistently bad press. It was originally seen as a kind of hangover empire. People have long predicted its demise. ↗

— Ben Pimlott

#bad press #commonwealth #consistently #demise #empire

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

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I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later. ↗

— Susan George

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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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I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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