"The world has seen thousands of prophets, and the world has yet to see millions"
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"A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand."
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"Death makes a prophet's voice louder."
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"Nobody can force you, not even the holy prophets."
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"Families, like countries, take their prophets unkindly, but a verse-speaker in the house is dishonor to be hooted."
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"Tell your secrets. [In reply to the question "How does one become a prophet?"]"
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"A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet."
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"God does not exist and Dirac is His prophet."
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"Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their day than prophets); and by futurologists (salaried). Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying."
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"I am no prophet-and here's no great matter."
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"Our prayers are prophets."
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"If we could have any security against moods! If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words, and the hearer who is readyto sell all and join the crusade, could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!"
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"We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets; but I do esteem him a true one."
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"Every religion has a prophet who is pointing people to God. Jesus is the only one who says, 'I am God, and I am coming to find you.'"
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"The Prophet is bound to report the truth occasionally," said Dumbledore, "if only accidentally."
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"There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world."
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"Agnes was the worst prophet that's ever existed. Because she was always right. That's why the book never sold."
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"The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons."
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"Historians are prophets with their face turned backward."
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"Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it. Kahlil Gibran (Visions of the Prophet)"
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