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/^t/Lying can be the only way to achieving one's aims. There will always be plenty of 'nice' toadies who would take any chance to ingratiate with their principals, the only way of getting promotion. And because people are vain and like to listen to such sweet remarks of how charming and intelligent they are, they surround themselves with those 'yes-men', whereas dedicated, silent workers who sacrify part of their personal lives and most of their spare time for the good of the firm, usually remain unnoticed and spent their whole lives sitting behind one and the same desk and doing the same 'stupid' job. It is not fair, but those who claim that 'the end justifies the means' would tell that unfortunatelly, the world we live in is a world of cruel competition and there is no place for weaklings. The bitter truth is that as long as we approve of lying, they are right.