In order to claim powers of uncanny prophesy, for at least a while, I think I owe it to the law of averages to predict it here in black and white, so that I can get levelled.

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The sponsors' curse seemed to become a self-fulfilling prophesy.

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If he's wrong - if there is, in fact, a faster growth path available, which would not undermine market confidence, then the government's strategy could be making the supply side problem a self-fulfilling prophesy, by condemning us to unnecessarily slow growth which could have permanent effects on Britain's potential output.

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Then, there is the oddity that the forecasters may have some small ability to make their forecast a self-fulfilling prophesy.

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"I said, 'We're going to have 100% of the stroller market for three years, and then we'll be lucky to have 5%, '" Jeff predicted, and his prophesy came true.

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Another of their important functions, according to Celtic tales and mythologies, was they were able to exhibit a range of magical powers, such as divination and prophesy, healing, levitation, shapechanging and they could even control the weather.

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Using capital as a means of ensuring that banks do not fail will be a self-fulfilling prophesy that will only guarantee a land made up of Too-Big-To-Fail giants ( Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, Wells Fargo, etc.), and will eliminate any creativity in the financial sector.

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But if there is a moral to this larger story, it is that eating as if there were no tomorrow, can become self-fulfilling prophesy.

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