The Hosts and their mysterious Language have evolved to be unable to tell lies.
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By using the similes to tell lies, Surl Tesh-echer is about to eat from the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
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).
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.
Yet much of the value of information hinges on its power to tell us what lies ahead.
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.
And he said it's common for people involved in this kind of stuff to tell little stories or lies or withhold information first.
"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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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.
Once the book was published, who cared what transparent lies you had to tell to save your life?
Nowadays Bob would go to jail no matter what lies he might tell, because Verna was underage.
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.
"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.
I'm not going to tell you how, against all odds, the movie manages to pull this off, but part of the magic lies in an exquisite encounter in a hallway toward the end, after many convolutions of the plot.
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