He told some lies and sometimes just embroidered the truth.

他说了些谎话，有时候只不过是渲染了一下事实。

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It's a sad fact of life: lies are lies, and sometimes the truth can lie as well.

生活中有一个可悲的事实：谎言是谎言，但有时真相也会撒谎。

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On the walk home, I think about truth, lies, responsibility and freedom.

在回去的路上，我思考着真实、谎言、责任和自由。

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The beauty of industry lies in its truth and simpleness.

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Offers of bribes in endless forms to be on or off our list, crooked accounting, generosity and cruelty, creativity and theft, arrogance and humility, truth and lies, all side by side, from one end of China to the other, and connecting through America, too.

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"Behind the fancy speeches, grand promises and TV special lies the truth: With crises at home and abroad, Barack Obama lacks the experience America needs, " the ad said.

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The government's cowardly handling of the Chomsky incident is testament to the Left's success at intimidating Western leaders to the point where instead of standing up to leftist propaganda and lies, they accept them as truth and even collaborate in disseminating them.

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