What if everything he was told was a lie?
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When have you told a little white lie to avoid an unpleasant situation or conversation?
This weekend also brings Atonement, in which a lie told by a 13-year-old schoolgirl wrecks a number of lives, and Grace Is Gone, in which a man trying to shield his preteen daughters from tragedy discovers that they're more resilient than he is.
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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"Golfers are being sold a lie when they're told they'll get better with 30 minutes of swing analysis, " said Rick Jensen, a sports psychologist who argued in his book "Easier Said Than Done" that simple lessons aren't enough.
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Police had even trained him in counter-surveillance after he was told he would have to "live and hold a lie" for the rest of his life.
She admitted it was "a ridiculous lie" and she had still not told the police "exactly why everything happened".
"The state brought many witnesses with a motive to embellish or outright lie, " she told jurors.
But, after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told a lunchtime gathering of economists earlier this week that "more difficulties surely lie ahead, " the index plunged 6.5%.
From this perspective, I find myself becoming almost fond of the monarchy: that something so unfashionable should retain the power to move us gives the lie to a lot of what we're always being told about the importance of the latest thing.
Students said that, as word spread that a gunman was moving through the school, they were told to barricade themselves in classrooms, lie on the floor down and wait for help.
Do you think Roger Ailes experienced even a moment of worry when The New York Times revealed that he had told publisher Judith Regan to lie to prosecutors about her affair with Bernie Kerik?
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