Concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

[Laurence Horn]

On Aug 15, 2011, at 1:28 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> 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

Goes back so far that I remember it as "40 million Frenchmen…"

LH

> 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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