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is conservative, continuous, and linked to the past.

discontinuous, radical, and linked to the future.

is the art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.

PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.

is always to be avoided beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place. Winston Churchill

is like writing fugues... it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.

The prophesying business is like writing fugues... it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius

is magical in the sense of having the greatest possible penetrating power.

magical in the sense of having the greatest possible penetrating power.

is originally not about being told the future. To ask for a prophecy originally meant to compel the future by gaining favor of Apollo, the God of rhythm.

Verse also had a function in oracles-the Greeks claimed that the hexameter was invented at Delphi-because here, too, rhythm was supposed to effect a compulsion. Asking for a prophecy meant originally (according to the etymology of the word that seems most probable to me) to get something deter- mined: one thought that one could compel the future by gain- ing the favor of Apollo, who was originally taken to be much more than a prescient god. As the formula is pronounced, with literal and rhythmical precision. it binds the future. But the formula is the invention of Apollo who, being the god of rhythm. can bind even the goddesses of fate.

is as tightly tied to the past as it is to the future. One must study the past if one would divine the future.

Study the past if you would divine the future.

is the art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery

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