It tends to rebound after the initial premonitions that a Democrat will win.

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These grand-scale premonitions are largely based on Kurzweil's law of accelerating returns, which states that the development of technology has been increasing exponentially since the beginning of time.

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He wants only to light a small fire, enough to cook a simple meal, nothing more, hardly an undertaking momentous enough to give rise to premonitions such as these.

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We felt it important to convey this hidden side of Lincoln, this sense of his almost wasting away with premonitions of death, even as he was outwardly so poised and steadfast through the closing of the war.

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"I won't claim to have had any premonitions about the collapse, but one of the reasons I left was that we had moved so far away from fundamentals into a heady market that I wasn't really having fun anymore, " she says.

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