Many things we misread as meaningful are quite ordinary coincidences. For example, it's not unlikely that occasionally someone will phone you after you've been thinking about them. But we give these things value to make sense of our lives. (Derren Brown)

Many things we misread as meaningful are quite ordinary coincidences. For example, it's not unlikely that occasionally someone will phone you after you've been thinking about them. But we give these things value to make sense of our lives.

Derren Brown

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