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“If a palmist grasp my palm, and look into it, without seeing a single line, what would he read?”

“The future is as blank as a plane sheet if you don't have an eagle's eye, that's why you should climb to a vantage point to get a good perspective view at your future.”

“I always avoid prophesying beforehand because it is much better to prophesy after the event has already taken place.”

Prognostication

Author:Winston S. Churchill

“He does love prophesying a misfortune, does the average British ghost. Send him out to prognosticate trouble to somebody, and he is happy. Let him force his way into a peaceful home, and turn the whole house upside down by foretelling a funeral, or predicting a bankruptcy, or hinting at a coming disgrace, or some other terrible disaster, about which nobody in their senses would want to know sooner than they could possible help, and the prior knowledge of which can serve no useful purpose whatsoever, and he feels that he is combining duty with pleasure. He would never forgive himself if anybody in his family had a trouble and he had not been there for a couple of months beforehand, doing silly tricks on the lawn or balancing himself on somebody's bedrail. ("Introduction" to TOLD AFTER SUPPER)”

Ghost Ghosts Ghost Stories Ghost Story Prognostication

Book:Gaslit Nightmares: Stories by Robert W. Chambers, Charles Dickens, Richard Marsh, and Others

Source: Gaslit Nightmares: Stories by Robert W. Chambers, Charles Dickens, Richard Marsh, and Others

“Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe. [ca. 1906]”

Capitalism Government Regulation Prognostication

Book:The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Source: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

“March is the month of expectation, The things we do not know, The Persons of Prognostication Are coming now. We try to sham becoming firmness, But pompous joy Betrays us, as his first betrothal Betrays a boy.”

Knows Trying Firsts Persons Joy Boys Months Becoming Spring Expectations March Betray Springtime Pompous Firmness Prognostication

Book:The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime

Source: The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime

“You see, astrology is like fortune-telling. If you can't get it right, you say, "Well, if Venus was doing something peculiar in the background, that would alter your prognostication--because, of course, astrology is rubbish.”

Ifs Wells Courses Fortune Backgrounds Peculiar Astrology Rubbish Venus Fortune Telling Prognostication

Author:Quentin Crisp

“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”

“The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering and the prognostications and the turmoil, the disagreements and the fateful decisions and agreements and the plans and the programs and the threats and the counter threats, then you close your eyes and the sea dispatches one more big roller in the unbroken line since the beginning of the world and it combs and breaks and returns foaming and saying: "So soon?" E. B. White "On A Florida Key”

World Way Bigs Eye Lines White Decision Answers Break Plans Sea Keys Return Paper Program Threat Discussion Agreement Florida Papers Disagreement Turmoil Unbroken Combs Bickering Prognostication

Author:E. B. White

“Either we have hope within us or we don't It is a dimension of the soul, and is not essentially dependent on some particular observation of the World or observation of the situation. Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart.”

World Heart Soul Spirit Situation Particular Observation Grieving Dimensions Dependent Orientation Having Hope Prognostication

Author:Vaclav Havel

“Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.”

Motivation Chance Hero Succeed Goodness Heroic Prognostication

Author:Vaclav Havel

“The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear.”

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].

“Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool’s errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term market or economic assessments largely irrelevant.”

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Author:Bill Ackman