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There were lots of things that they didn't tell him, such as, that actually murdering Duncan would drive him and his wife insane, that Macduff had been born by Caesarian section and that for the purposes of their prophecy, that did not make him "born of woman", that any part of Birnam wood coming to Dunsinane would fulfill their prophecy, and that what had been predicted would happen no matter what he did.

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