The Hosts and their mysterious Language have evolved to be unable to tell lies.
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We tell lies of omission, lies that obscure facts, and lies that are blatant misrepresentations of the truth.
By using the similes to tell lies, Surl Tesh-echer is about to eat from the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
What such a person might eventually ask himself was why he felt a need to break the rules, tell lies, have things to get away with.
After their seventh birthday, these boys and girls were slightly more likely to get into fights, tell lies or be bullies than their peers, according to their mothers' reports.
"You all come here and tell lies, " shouted one man as my pleas to be allowed to continue filming fell on ears deafened by the devastating impact of Saturday's bombs.
No matter where in the world they live, for example, children all begin to tell lies at about the same age and for similar reasons (for example, to avoid getting into trouble).
Rhea concedes that there are some phonies who "just tell lies" and exploit victims, but she says that isn't the case with genuine psychics who can aid an investigation that is otherwise at a standstill.
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We tell inconsequential lies, substantive lies, little lies, big lies, social lies and mean lies.
Two new CDs reflect this change: Vieux Farka Toure's Fondo, and Justin Adams and Juldeh Camara's Tell No Lies.
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As children get older, they typically tell more white lies and fewer harmful ones.
Yet much of the value of information hinges on its power to tell us what lies ahead.
"You tell so many lies that you've lost track of the lies you've told and you become tangled in the web you've woven, " Mr. Durham said.
And he said it's common for people involved in this kind of stuff to tell little stories or lies or withhold information first.
The Methodist and United Reformed Churches, the Church of Scotland and the Baptist Union jointly published the The Lies We Tell Ourselves study.
"Quite frankly, I cannot understand how some of these people (witnesses) were brought to this point ... to tell some of the lies that I have heard sitting over there, " Taylor said from the witness stand.
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Nowadays Bob would go to jail no matter what lies he might tell, because Verna was underage.
The subjects in DePaulo's study confessed that they would tell 75% of the lies again if given the opportunity.
Such differences at the surface are often tell-tales of what lies beneath.
Once the book was published, who cared what transparent lies you had to tell to save your life?
Here are three of the most common lies I hear people tell themselves all of which can cause significant damage in your career.
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Those who travelled to applaud his speech left none the wiser about the lies that Armstrong appeared to tell them over the years, adds our correspondent.
But there are other names for the seemingly harmless lies spouses and romantic partners sometimes tell each other.
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But Google Maps and the Flickr iPhone app each tell us an interesting story about where power lies in today's mobile world.
During his last years in power, Saddam was living in a bubble, a fake world sealed off from the real world by underlings too scared to tell him anything other than a pack of lies.
The show is adapted from the 2005 book House of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Tell You the Time, written by onetime consultant Martin Kihn.
Behind this disgraceful prosecution lies a simple truth that the Dutch establishment cannot tell its people - that, unless something changes, their nation will become more and more Muslim and, very soon, slip past the point of no return.
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At the Festival of Lies we see how the Hosts become almost delirious with ecstasy when the Ambassadors tell them stories.
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But it does tell us that the median survival benefit of 4 months is conservative, and the real median survival benefit lies somewhere between 4 and 14 months.
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