Concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Aug 15 17:28:55 UTC 2011


On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:57 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
> the plurality or majority of consumers cannot be wrong

"Fifty-million Frenchmen *can't* be wrong!"

Anybody else remember this one? That slogan goes back so far that,
even though it was once an almost-everyday expression, I've never
really understood what was behind the "wink," so to speak. I was too
young to get it.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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