When have you told a little white lie to avoid an unpleasant situation or conversation?
Even just a tiny bit of cheating, a little white lie, can be the seed for a lot of lies later on.
Every single one of these myths seems likely to me to have seemed like a little white lie when told by an individual doctor to an individual patient.
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Wall Street regarded it with disdain, and when companies under investigation were called to give testimony their executives may have felt little reluctance to lie, which carried far less risk than admitting to a crime under oath in a civil action.
It's basically about a little girl who tells this terrible lie and affects everybody around her especially her older sister and a guy who's living on their - the housekeeper's son on their estate.
Seeing it all unfold so quickly -- along with the rousing music -- we're not going to lie, we got a little lump in our throats.
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We won't lie, we were a little bitter when TiVo snubbed us and didn't offer us a pre-release version of the Series3 for review, we mean even our brothers at Engadget got one to play with.
For a while I just lie there and let all the little moments fly round in my head.
While big spenders like Oracle 's Larry Ellison grab headlines for antics like buying the longest yacht in world, the thrifty rich lie low--and spend little in comparison.
This new research adds a little more evidence to help decide where the balance should lie.
When, in mid-afternoon, the sun dips behind the mountain and my skis suddenly criss-cross ice-blue shadows, I am reminded of the more sinister snippets of local folklore my hosts have passed on: the wizard Fida, who lived in a cave above the valley and sold his soul to the devil, and the evil little spirits, parkeljni, who rattle their chains as they lie in wait for naughty children.
The explanation for this may lie in the enigmatic "dark energy" that scientists know so little about but which is said to be accelerating the expansion of the Universe.
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His biggest problem on fiscal matters, one close advisor confided, may lie with his own Democrats in the legislature, many of whom are little more than satraps of the public employee interests.
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