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    Saira feel guilty. She thought for a moment and realized that it would be very wrong for the poor maid to be punished for a crime that Saira had committed. She was frightened deep inside but she also wanted to save the innocent maid so she decided to lie yet once again. She ran to her mother and said that she had stolen the money to buy some books to get good grades. Her mother

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    The White Lie

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    The White Lie The white lie perpetuates itself in our daily lives; in our relationships‚ in our homes and at our jobs. It is a poisonous seed that once set‚ can stem disastrous outcomes. Everyone has used the little white lie at some point‚ but it is however‚ the work of arrogance and deceit‚ and brings about distrust‚ self degradation‚ and pain. We think that white lies are harmless; nothing would come of them. The grave reality is that this seemingly harmless lie is the root of even more complex

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    Truth or Lie?

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    Truth or Lie? Admit it: You’ve lied. You told your boss you were at home with the flu when really you are spending the day going shopping at the mall. You told your friend that she looked fabulous in that new polka dot dress she just bought. According to the free online dictionary‚ a lie is defined as a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood. There are several different reasons that a person might lie. For example‚ you might lie to keep yourself

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    Why People Lie

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    Why people tell lie outline Let’s say that‚ we always hear lies everywhere. Lies can hurt other people‚ and lies can be a joke to have fun with everyone. Lies can also be a way to glossing over the fact. Lies can protect who are telling the lie. Everyone lies‚ although the ideas of lying to people are wrong‚ but people still lie about anything in their life. In this essay‚ it will talk about which ways people will lie and how they lie. 1: Sometimes‚ some people will use a lie to hurt or laugh

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    ways we lie

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    The Ways We Lie It is curious to know that every day without thinking everyone tells lies “The Ways we lie” by Stephanie Ericcson is a realistic text that demonstrates what a lie is‚ why lies are told‚ how lies are justified‚ and consequences. According to this essay “We lie. We all do. We exaggerate‚ we minimize‚ we avoid confrontation‚ we spare people’s feelings‚ we conveniently forget‚ we keep secrets‚ we justify lying to the big-guy institutions.” (Page 408 of The Bedford Reader). Ericsson

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    Lie and Birthday Party

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     or tring to avoid trouble‚ or may think the lie will be the better answer. Nice people will tell the ugly person "you are not ugly." When you lose a game‚ your friends will tell you "you are very good." Have uncountable numbers of lies are "white lie". They lie for not get hurt thelistenerfrom the truth. Many kind of lie in the world‚ it is in the every where of the world. Also lies have some kind are for self satisfy. Multiple purposes lie in the world. We should telling the truth‚ better than lie people. I used be a big liar

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    Why We Lie

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    "To thine own self be true." (Shakespeare) Unfortunately we are not true to ourselves. We all lie for many reasons which can be for fear of harm‚ fear of conflict‚ fear of rejection‚ fear of punishment‚ fear of loss or altruistic reasons such as helping our loved ones to make them feel better‚ which is the only selfless reason why we lie. It all comes down to the one fundamental reason as to why we lie and it is because it mostly works. Just like lying to someone makes them lose their trust for

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    First of all‚ a good occasion to lie is when you do not want to hurt other people’s feeling. If you know that the true is going to hurt someone‚ it is better to lie. For example‚ when I do not like my friend’s new hairstyle I just tell her that it looks nice even if I do not like it. When you do not want to be disrespectful with someone about an opinion you just try to agree with the other person even if you do not agree. To specific‚ if you think that an older person opinion is old-fashioned you

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    Lie With Statistics

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    How to Lie with Statistics Summary There are some people that rely heavily on the statistical information provided by the media‚ government‚ and other research groups in order to form opinions or come to a conclusion on a particular idea or product. However they fail to realize that a lot of the time the data is manipulated in such a way that leads them to believe something that is not actually the case. Statistics can lie in many ways the first way is by using a sample that has a bias. For instance

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    The Benefits Of Lie Essay

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    Lie require a new level of dedication and cognitive thinking which make it tremendously difficult. Why someone lie? Well people lie because they feel in danger‚ they want to cover the true‚ they need to look better in front of others‚ or just for emotional wellbeing. “When someone lies‚ someone loses” I agree with it because it can be in two different form of result. Whoever tell the lie got away with it or just got caught in the process of lie. There are different lie teller some of them are good

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