Even just a tiny bit of cheating, a little white lie, can be the seed for a lot of lies later on.

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After telling a "white lie" about her education, she eventually got a junior job at Labatts Brewers and became director of Scotland within three years.

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When have you told a little white lie to avoid an unpleasant situation or conversation?

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Every single one of these myths seems likely to me to have seemed like a little white lie when told by an individual doctor to an individual patient.

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Last week, Judge Johnson ruled the Secret Service could not invoke such a privilege to prevent its agents from testifying before the grand jury investigating allegations that President Bill Clinton urged Lewinsky, a former White House intern, to lie under oath about a sexual affair.

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Liu Qiang's ashes lie in a cremation box on the altar, wrapped in a white silk scarf, waiting for burial.

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White space devices offer a creative and efficient way to use spectrum that would otherwise lie fallow.

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So while the White House claim that beneficiaries will not lose benefits may not be technically a lie, surely the FTC would pounce on a private company if it said the same things.

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Some congressional Democrats had been nervous about the prospect that Clinton might try to avoid testifying in Independent Counsel Ken Starr's inquiry into whether the president urged people to lie to cover up an alleged sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky, a former White House intern.

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