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Victoria C. Woodhull: “To do so carries no conviction nor prophetic knowledge of what must be next, as a necessary sequence.”

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To do so carries no conviction nor prophetic knowledge of what must be next, as a necessary sequence.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull warns that without conviction, assertions lack predictive power about future events.

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