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But he was quickly disabused of any hope that his prophesies of financial doom would sway opponents.

From BBC

According to WTHR-TV in Indianapolis, Davis frequently had to stop and correct the behavior of Lewis, who at one point prophesied the end of the world.

When we set out to make this film, No Choice, we hoped to imagine a plausible future — not to prophesy our present reality.

From Salon

This is headline news today, but more than a century ago American writers began to foresee such a crisis, and to prophesy what might happen next.

From Salon

Now, even these people are starting to worry that their prophesied savior is too busy golfing and setting up a massive financial corruption scheme to care about the conspiracists who got him elected.

From Salon

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