Concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
> Interestingly enough, when Willie Raskin, Billy Rose, and Fred Fisher wrote the
> song "Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong" in 1927, the actual population of
> France was pretty close to 40 million -- it wouldn't hit 50 million until 1968,
> says Wikipedia.
>

But, wasn't it just a saying, without any pretense that it reflected
any kind of reality?

BTW, thanks for the info WRT the song. I had no idea that there was a
song with that title. Perhaps reading its lyrics will give me a clue
to the point of the expression!

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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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