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“There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell research.”

“False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.”

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Author:William Rounseville Alger

“Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.”

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Author:Khalil Gibran

“Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.”

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Author:Barbara Mertz

“I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.”

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Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.”

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Author:Victor Hugo

“We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.”

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Author:Honore de Balzac

“I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.”

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Author:Jack Benny

“There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.”

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Author:Josh Billings

“It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression.”

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Author:Ahmed Yassin

“But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.”

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Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

“The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls of the room, filled to and beyond capacity. The overflow had been piled in stacks on the floor. There was little space left for walking, and none whatever for pacing.”

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Author:J. D. Salinger

“Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.”

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Author:Milan Kundera

“Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.”

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Book:Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912

Source: Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912

“Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.”

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Book:The Journals

Source: The Journals

“The report of my death was an exaggeration.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.”

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Book:Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream

Source: Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream

“All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.”

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Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.”

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Author:Hosea Ballou

“Exaggeration is my only reality.”

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Author:Diana Vreeland

“The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.”

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Author:Aries Spears

“An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.”

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Book:The National Review

Source: The National Review

“By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.”

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Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.”

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Author:Walt Disney

“It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.”

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Book:The Image

Source: The Image

“Exaggeration is a branch of lying.”

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Author:Baltasar Gracian

“Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.”

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Author:Baltasar Gracian

“It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.”

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Author:Victor Hugo

“It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.”

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Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

“Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.”

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Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.”

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Book:The Image

Source: The Image

“There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.”

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Book:Daniel Deronda

Source: Daniel Deronda

“Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.”

Source: The Napoleonic Novels: The Rover & Suspense: From the Renowned Author of The Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)