#prophets

The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

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Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us. ↗

— Martin Luther

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The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt. ↗

— Maimonides

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True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely. ↗

— Yoko Ono

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We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets. ↗

— Karl Popper

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Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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We can always be sure of one thing—that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those who wish to preserve at all costs their own contentment. This is not a lesson that is confined to the Testaments. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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Prophets are those who take life as it is and expand it. They refuse to shrink a vision of tomorrow to the boundaries of yesterday. ↗

— Joan Chittister OSB

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