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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. "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. Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Wikipedia

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    Six times nine is actually fifty-four; the answer is deliberately wrong for that question because the question was miscomputed. The program on the "Earth computer" should have run correctly, but the unexpected arrival of the Golgafrinchans on prehistoric Earth caused input errors into the system—computing the wrong question (because of the ...

  5. 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]

  6. 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.

  7. May you live in interesting times - Wikipedia

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    I think that you will all agree that we are living in most interesting times. (Hear, hear.) I never remember myself a time in which our history was so full, in which day by day brought us new objects of interest, and, let me say also, new objects for anxiety. (Hear, hear.) [emphasis added] [1]

  8. Storytelling With Morgan Housel, Randi Zuckerberg, and David ...

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    This time of year, that never happens. David Gardner: I hear you. Well, there's a lot of things that have never happened before that are happening this week, and this is one of them.

  9. False memory - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, a false memory is a phenomenon where someone recalls something that did not actually happen or recalls it differently from the way it actually happened. Suggestibility , activation of associated information, the incorporation of misinformation, and source misattribution have been suggested to be several mechanisms underlying a ...