Thankfully, too: "We lie less frequently to our significant others because we're more invested in those relationships, " says Jeffrey Hancock, associate professor of communications at Cornell University.
By now we treat the place like we own it: we eat the yogurt her mom makes in glass cups on a warming machine, we lie on the living-room couch with our sock feet on the armrests.
One of the ways that we stay on top of the news here at Engadget is by subscribing to a couple of different services that mail out tech-related press releases to journalists (to sign up we had to lie and pretend we weren't just some crappy weblog).
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"As a management team, we did lie, " The Associated Press quoted the witness as declaring.
Sound quality matters most for headphones, but we won't lie: we've got a soft spot for a slick design.
We also got to do football drills when my mom would go to work in the summer, where we would lie in full football gear and smash each other.
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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.
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, things got a tad disappointing when we realized they were non-functioning mockups, but if the company can pull off these frame-less designs we'll be quite impressed.
But it seems to me that this is a false necessity, where we force people to lie about who they are, rather than merely enabling them to choose not to disclose who they are to begin with.
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For all the challenges that lie ahead, we see many reasons to be hopeful.
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In other word we have to extract the lie from the interest rate in order to get it back to telling the truth.
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When we talk about dialogue for an entire millennium then it may be useless and fruitless to continue to lie to nature the way we do.
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Fact is, though, if bona fide lie detectors existed, we'd all be guilty as charged.
"We're not going to lie to you and say everything is hunky dory, " Wright says.
When he had raised the complaints with Muldoon he had replied: "They lie as much as we do", the court heard.
And as in many bilateral relationships, we have -- we see the benefits of that and we understand the difficult challenges that lie ahead.
"They'll stop you coming out of the building or the lobby and you could tell them, 'Y'all could take me upstairs right now to the apartment I came from' and they'll lie and say 'we went upstairs and checked, '" he said.
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We're kind of on the fence here, since we ourselves have been known to lie about our TV viewing habits during an embarrassing Veronica Mars kick last year, but the fact that Arbitron's research comes from 2, 000 households in Houston during the Sprint of 2005 doesn't really incite confidence.
"The squad is as healthy as it has been and we are ready for the challenges that lie ahead, " he added.
And we know where the sources of disagreement lie.
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"Ultimately our future is going to lie in knowledge based industries and we've got to all get behind it, " he warned.
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.
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