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/^t/We learn to lie very early, in our childhood. A small baby deceives his/her mother to get more food or pretends to be ill to make the parents focus their attention on him. With the passage of time, as we grow older our lies become more and more sophisticated. We stretch the truth to gain personal advantages, but also very often resort to lying because we want to protect other people's feelings. Deceiving is an inseparable but also very controversial part of our life and one should not treat it only one-sided as something completely bad or immoral.