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What Does the Future Hold?

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The stock market has forecast nine of the last five recessions. Paul A. Samuelson

The future is hidden from us by infinite wisdom, or else I would like to know it; one would calculate one’s behaviour at the present time so much better if one only knew what events were to become. Mrs Gibson in Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell

I don’t believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk the stage. Noel Coward

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Everitt, B. (2008). What Does the Future Hold?. In: Chance Rules. Copernicus, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77415-2_14

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