The subjects in DePaulo's study confessed that they would tell 75% of the lies again if given the opportunity.
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).
The Methodist and United Reformed Churches, the Church of Scotland and the Baptist Union jointly published the The Lies We Tell Ourselves study.
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.
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.
Such differences at the surface are often tell-tales of what lies beneath.
But there are other names for the seemingly harmless lies spouses and romantic partners sometimes tell each other.
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"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.
Yet much of the value of information hinges on its power to tell us what lies ahead.
But Google Maps and the Flickr iPhone app each tell us an interesting story about where power lies in today's mobile world.
The Hosts and their mysterious Language have evolved to be unable to tell lies.
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Once the book was published, who cared what transparent lies you had to tell to save your life?
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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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.
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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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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