You're not a fan of the Pragmatism school of philosophy, are you?
You think a lot of things. And people say a lot of thing. Eventually this line up by pure chance. But do to how your bain work you are more inclined to take note of the few coincidences and forget about the vast number when this did not happen. It's similar to the Gambler's Fallacy and the clustering illusion, and the basis of "synchronicity". Read the Wikipedia article on Apophenia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia
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