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In his personal hit parade of intolerable linguistic outrages, the confusion of lay and lie comes in a close second.
A spontaneous lie comes when a mother asks her teenage son, "Did you do your math homework?" A rehearsed lie comes when she asks him, "Why are you coming home an hour past your curfew?" The question about the homework probably surprises him, and he has to lie on the fly.
If you find yourself thinking "I'm just not very social, I'm just not good with people," then you might be right, but the lie comes when you tell yourself you can't change.
You: "That lie comes from an anti-choice activist group's heavily-edited series of videos about Planned Parenthood.
Plotlines, too, are sitcom-classic -- some hasty lie comes back to haunt the teller, usually -- and it is sentimental about family even in its most trying aspects.
This particular lie comes from the section of Barton's book where he's trying to convince his readers that Jefferson rejected all of the secular Enlightenment writers, and only embraced the Christian ones.
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I told a lie to Big Daddy, but we can make that lie come true.
How does a lie come to be widely taken as the truth?
That lie came back to haunt Jason Teneyck, 36, at his sentencing on Tuesday for his involvement in a ring that sold guns and prescription pain pills.
"I convince myself that things are happening even when they're not because then I have to make my lie come true".
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