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Unfortunately, in every day life people resort to lying very often and for more mundane reasons than previously mentioned. They make a frequent use of a lie to win other people's acceptance, approval, to hide their inefficiency. They tend to create they own world in which they play the role of imposters who are unable to cope with the reality. In such situations lying appears to be a sign of cowardice and, however, any generalization blackens the problem, is really a subject to condemnation.