text: A statement that successfully picks its way across this dangerous terrain is said to exhibit an economy of truth , and a person who has uttered such a statement is said to have been economical with the truth . These characterizations , too , were originally conferred with a sense of professional appreciation ( I first heard them on the lips of some Jesuit friends ) , but they have also been pulled out of truth 's orbit and into the atmosphere of mendacity .
  
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  My Jesuit friends had no idea about the statements .