He says often people only say good things about a person when they are dead, in eulogies.
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Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) would only say that it spends "millions" on its army of 70, 000.
Mr Maskhadov's people say that only a handful of Chechens, if any, are fighting in Afghanistan.
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" He plans to attend his 40th high school reunion in June with pride: "I know I'll be one of the only people who can say they weigh less at that reunion than they did in high school.
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We interpret what people say to us only partially from the words they use.
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"The IRS would only say that people get divorced, they move, we don't know that wasn't you and that your circumstances didn't change, " Mr. Parker says.
This near-universal appetite is evident not only in what people say (even in conservative Muslim countries, where God-given sharia can be more popular than any law made by man, people tell opinion pollsters they want to elect their own governments).
However, only 2% of people who say they have experienced interference have ever lodged a complaint.
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But in reality there is only so much that people can say or write without getting into trouble.
But many business people say they are holding only enough local currency to cover their immediate operating costs.
"With the price of fuel it's too tempting for people to say we're only producing a small amount of fuel that stays below the criteria for being a proper registered producer with all the costs and all the bureaucracy and all the burdens that brings with it, " says Jim Walker, managing director of Argent Energy.
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While the building was destroyed, the only people injured, medics in Gaza say, were two Palestinian civilians.
But once it comes in, not only do people accept it, they say 'Why didn't we do it before?
In addition, Gore says, experiments that test people's willingness to behave unethically only say so much about their day-to-day behavior.
"Let me repeat, " Chidambaram told Parliament in his budget speech, making sure no one thought he had misspoken, "only 42, 800" people say they earn that much.
Only 21% of young people say they openly discuss politics at work, compared to 29% of workers between ages 25 and 34, and 36% of workers age 35 and older.
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Now, it's only fair to say most people, the religious and the non-religious alike, don't buy any of this, but none more than the owners of some of the adult businesses along I-35.
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"A lot of patients that I see come in with very high weight loss expectations and very few people say that their goal is only 5% to 10% of their body weight, " she said.
"I feel that I should not have to continually justify myself to people who do not understand this, however I will say one thing only -- I am not the man that some people like to portray, " Di Canio said in a statement on Sunderland's website on Wednesday.
But only one in five people in Great Britain say a British scandal of that sort would have received less attention.
Almost seven out of 10 people say their computers crash, but of those, two-thirds say it happens only about once each month.
"Clearly there were local factors, but I also say only four out of 10 people voted for the three mainstream political parties, " he said.
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I've had people in my own family say that's only one issue, but it's like, if you don't get born, the rest of the issues don't matter.
Specialists say only a small number of people are expected to be so severely affected that they develop PTSD, a disorder that can include flashbacks, debilitating anxiety, irritability and insomnia months after the trauma.
Perhaps it's true what they say: the British are the only people capable of feeling schadenfreude about their own misfortune.
Even though new figures show it is shrinking more slowly, the job market is shrinking all the same, which is why only 4 percent of people in our lead Facebook pulse say unemployment will return to 5 percent within the year, which is where it was when the recession began -- 20 percent say next year -- 57 percent say within five years, within 10 years, only 1 percent.
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The only people who make real money in class actions, critics say, are the lawyers on both sides.
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