They are moved more by simple curiosity as to whether such a huge spoof can possibly succeed, and, if so, what will follow when the truth is told.
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In January, the head of the independent UK Statistics Authority was moved to write publicly about a television broadcast the prime minister had made, suggesting the government was "paying down debt", when of course the truth is that debt is going up.
But how do you know when someone is telling the truth or is lying?
And when a person lies, more of the light is reflected, and the reflections come from a wider area, than when he is telling the truth.
Right now it looks like another school that got swept up by sports, and learned a lesson the hard way: when faced with the truth, the truth is undefeated.
Even when the weak dare to confront the strong, the truth is not trivial.
For the simple basic truth is that when a supplier faces increasing competition in its trading space then the first thing to suffer is going to be the margins: as it cuts them to try and maintain sales.
The steps end with the Ultimate Moment of Truth, which is when people share their experience with the brand or product.
But the truth is that when we face uncertainty, planning actually does very little.
However, the truth is, when you reduce potential upside, risk starts to look less palatable.
The truth is, when most women report sexual harassment in India's cities, towns and villages, they are typically met with a shrug.
The truth is that when it comes to profitability Wegner is indeed a second-tier customer compared with other customers with higher checking balances.
The truth is that when crude prices drop and our fuel margins dwindle, our chemicals margins rise--not in direct proportion, mind you, but sufficiently to cushion the blow.
The truth is that when you go into a confined space where there are a potential mixture of combatants and non-combatants, the process each US soldier will have to do is discernment, discrimination and engagement.
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Truth is the casualty when journalists weigh unfounded assertion on the same scale as facts.
But, of course, when it comes to pursuing the truth, it is not the quantity of information that counts but its quality.
When it comes to financial planning, the truth is that we often focus a lot on our own needs and goals and sometimes not enough on those of others.
Yes: it is encouraging when truth seeks the light, wherever it may be, but beyond Penn State, 2011 was marked by a dreary onslaught of scandals, contentiousness, lockouts and litigation.
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But the horrible truth is that the effectiveness of any such body will be discovered only when a real crisis occurs.
"People underestimate how difficult it is to tell the truth when you have lived a secret life for a long time, " Coyle said.
We're conditioned to accept the unbelievable, especially when that unbelievable is presented as a warm back story to a verifiable truth, like Teo's performance on the field, which was extraordinary and real.
He says he only learned the truth a week ago, which is when the rest of the world learned it.
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When we invent, it is only in order to remember the truth more exactly.
"When you sue people that you know are telling the truth, that is really difficult to forgive, " he said.
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The truth, Dolly told CNN, is that when she's in California or New York "where anything could happen" she goes to bed with her makeup on.
But of course the truth is this story began centuries ago, when horsemen descended to the plains from a lost kingdom called Futa Djallon, long before Europe's map makers turned their minds to the niggling problem of how to fill those blank spaces.
The truth is that women face greater obstacles, especially when travelling alone.
But the truth is that I started it some years ago when I was scared to death to make sales and marketing calls.
The truth is, we are still in the Dark Ages when it comes to knowing what actually changes weather patterns.
Sales is instructive, even refreshing, because when money is on the line human pretense evaporates leaving only the unvarnished truth.
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