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However, one thing I know for sure is that lying will never be the same again.
It was heartbreaking to see my dad, this strong, athletic, energetic guy, lying in the bed with electrodes strapped to his bare chest.
When I looked up, two guys were seated, three were lying down and others were squatting.
Soon after I started working, writing software in a company, a manager who worked at the company came down to where I was, and he whispered to me, "Can he tell if I'm lying?"
"Can who tell if you're lying?
"Can he tell if I'm lying?"
So I whisper-shouted back to him, "Yes, the computer can tell if you're lying."
Nowadays, there are computational systems that can suss out emotional states and even lying from processing human faces.
And eventually some crow gets a bright idea: "Hey, there's lots of coins lying around from the first stage, hops down, picks it up, drops it in the slot, and we're off to the races.
In "The Decay of Lying," Oscar Wilde establishes the idea that all bad art comes from copying nature and being realistic; and all great art comes from lying and deceiving, and telling beautiful, untrue things.
They also assumed that she was meant to be held or placed lying down because her tiny feet don't allow her to be freestanding.
Across from me stood an elderly lady with what seemed to be a 13-year-old girl lying beside her, with her head on the elderly lady's knees.
And the results have been fascinating, because, unapologetic lying aside, this agent was exactly right.
This idea that only professionals can invest and manage money is absolutely ridiculous, and whoever told you that is lying.
And they would look at him as they were lying there, missing limbs, and the first thing they would say is, "When can I go back?
Seeing the injured man lying on the ground, he did not ignore him as if he weren't even there.
A few days after my husband Paul was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer, we were lying in our bed at home, and Paul said, "It's going to be OK."
And I knew that he was lying.
We journalists are obligated to take sides in certain circumstances; in cases of racism, discrimination, corruption, lying to the public, dictatorships and human rights, we need to set aside neutrality and indifference.
People who have a set of protected values that's one standard deviation above the average, they discount money they receive by lying by about 25 percent.
That means a dollar received when lying is worth to them only 75 cents without any incentives you put in place for them to behave honestly.
Lying there facing death, he had a reason to live: love.
And Gene, who's lying on the floor, says, "We've got to soak towels."
You're lying there, you're looking at the picture, and you're in this machine, and you're calculating what went wrong.
They're not lying.
And he remained there until 1.6 million years later, when this very famous fossil hunter, Kamoya Kimeu, walked along a small hillside and found that small piece of his skull lying on the surface amongst the pebbles, recognized it as being hominid.
This is a photograph I found lying in a gutter in New York City about 10 years ago.
We aren't very good at lying, and we usually don't enjoy participating in this social game that the rest of you seem so fond of.
Habituation explains how our brains adapt to some behaviors, like lying, with repeated exposures.
Now you say, Charles, you are really lying to us, and so on, but that's not true.
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