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We hear anywhere from 10 to 200 lies a day, and we spent much of our history coming up with ways to detect them, from medieval torture devices to polygraphs, blood-pressure and breathing monitors, voice-stress analyzers, eye trackers, infrared brain scanners, and even the 400-pound electroencephalogram.

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Over the course of this year that we spent flying back and forth, we realized we had fallen in love with the place.

So they formed a White House task force, and they spent about three years arguing about who takes how much responsibility in the global supply chain.

I estimated that, just today, across the world, we spent about 106 average world lifetimes teaching people how to calculate by hand.

And he spent the last 10 years of his life in two places only, the slums and the state prison, where he spent the last two years before he ended up sitting on this rock there.

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