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  2. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    The "Twelfth of Never" will never come to pass. [4] A song of the same name was written by Johnny Mathis in 1956. "On Tibb's Eve" refers to the saint's day of a saint who never existed. [5] "When two Sundays come together" [6] "If the sky falls, we shall catch larks" means that it is pointless to worry about things that will never happen. [7]

  3. Imagination inflation - Wikipedia

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    Later studies have used similar methods with a pre-test rating of a series of events, an intervening cognitive task using the events, and a post-test confidence rating. . These have shown that a similar imagination inflation effect occurs when instead of imagining, people simply explain how events could have happened [6] or paraphrase the

  4. Memory implantation - Wikipedia

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    In memory implantation studies researchers make people believe that they remember an event that actually never happened. The false memories that have been successfully implanted in people's memories include remembering being lost in a mall as a child, taking a hot air balloon ride, among other things which could be both good or bad. [1] [2] [3]

  5. False memory - Wikipedia

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    In this study, the first point brought up in discussion is that the words used to phrase a question can heavily influence the response given. [4] Second, the study indicates that the phrasing of a question can give expectations to previously ignored details, and therefore, a misconstruction of our memory recall. This indication supports false ...

  6. Memory error - Wikipedia

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    Memory errors may include remembering events that never occurred, or remembering them differently from the way they actually happened. [1] These errors or gaps can occur due to a number of different reasons, including the emotional involvement in the situation, expectations and environmental changes.

  7. The Most Powerful Quotes Remembering 9/11 on the 22nd ... - AOL

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    The quotes from the World Trade Center site can be found in September Morning: Ten Years of ­Poems and Readings from the 9/11 Ceremonies New York City, compiled and edited by Sara Lukinson.

  8. Infinite monkey theorem - Wikipedia

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    [a] In fact, the monkey would almost surely type every possible finite text an infinite number of times. The theorem can be generalized to state that any sequence of events that has a non-zero probability of happening will almost certainly occur an infinite number of times, given an infinite amount of time or a universe that is infinite in size.

  9. Thousand points of light - Wikipedia

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    A 1991 article in The New York Times noted that the phrase had inspired "a host of caustic political satires, including cartoons of devastated communities as 'a thousand points of blight.'" [4] U.S. President Donald Trump mocked the phrase at a rally in Montana on July 5, 2018, asking "What does that mean?