There is a false belief that closing accounts will raise a credit score.

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Or they claim credit based on the false belief that their role on the team was more important than reality would dictate.

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In exactly the same way, Americans and Britons used to pile as much money as they could into bricks and mortar, in the false belief that house prices could only rise.

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Similarly, the enduring false belief that Ravi was responsible for outing Tyler Clementi, and for putting a sex tape on the Internet, can be seen as a collective effort to balance a terrible event with a terrible cause.

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"I think it's totally inappropriate to make these kinds of comments to a patient because personal comments can lead to the patient to have a false belief or impression that the doctor is interested in the patient or the patient has a bad impression of the doctor, " he said.

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When LaPierre said he was there to deliver "the truth, " he was referring to elites' "false" belief that even modest gun regulations might work.

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And you concluded that refuting a false claim can actually reinforce the belief in the original false statement.

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What we teach students is that a delusion is a belief that is false, fixed, and fantastic.

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I'm sure it was the president's hope and belief that the false affidavit used in the deposition to bolster his own testimony would be the end of the matter.

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Though the belief that there is a false sense of calm may sound like it contradicts with our weekly sentiment survey has been registering, I think it accurately portrays what many investors are feeling.

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