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• To exaggerate is to weaken.

  Jean-Francois de La Harpe

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• I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over.

  John Walker Lindh

  Single Life, Honest, Persons

  Interview with Robert Young Pelton, www.cnn.com. July 4, 2002.

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

  Honore de Balzac

  Exaggeration Is, Literature, Bad Grades

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• They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.

  Wendie Malick

  Mother, People, Helping

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Willa Cather

  Men, Exaggeration Is, Foolish Man

  Willa Cather (1970). “Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912”, p.496, U of Nebraska Press

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• The report of my death was an exaggeration.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Death, Exaggeration Is

  Quoted in N.Y. Journal, 2 June 1897. These words were preceded by "James Ross Clemens, of St. Louis, a cousin of mine, was seriously ill two or three weeks ago in London, but is well now. The report of my illness grew out of his illness." The quotation is usually reported as "Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated." Much earlier (5 July 1863), the following appeared in a letter by Twain to the Territorial Enterprise: "There was a report about town, last night, that Charles Strong, Esq

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• To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Exaggeration Is, Small Man

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Aries Spears

  Everyday Things, Exaggeration Is, Average

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• So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration

  Bill Sienkiewicz

  Envelopes, Pushing, Honorable

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• In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.

  Edmund Muskie

  Anger, Political, Littles

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

  Baltasar Gracian

  Exaggeration Is, Taste, Judgment

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• Arrogance is an exaggeration of the truth.

  Phil Heath

  Arrogance

  Source: monstersupplements.com

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• I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Tools, Use

  "David Sedaris: 'If you tell a funny story at the dinner table in front of 10 people, nine will laugh, and one will say: that's not true. I've always hated that person'". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2009.

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• All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Passion, Exaggeration Is

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• Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the method is one of the essential tools of the modern nuclear physicist.

  Walther Bothe

  Destiny, Essentials, Nuclear

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• The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.

  Robert Plant

  Song, Keys, Kind

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• There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sin, Greater

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1831). “The Young Duke: "a Moral Tale, Though Gay"”, p.234

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• A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

  Edith Hamilton

  Tendencies, Traits

  Edith Hamilton (2017). “Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, 75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition”, p.302, Hachette UK

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• Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other.

  Edwin Newman

  President, Vices, Triumph

  Edwin Newman (1974). “Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?”

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• Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated.

  Bill Bradley

  Demise, Said, Mark

  "Amiable Democratic debate may signal endgame of Gore-Bradley contest" by Mike Ferullo, www.cnn.com. March 2, 2000.

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• Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggerated.

  Kofi Annan

  Holocaust, Remember, Rebuke

  "Remembering is safeguard for future, Secretary-General says in message for first international day honouring memory of Holocaust victims". UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan message, www.un.org. January 27, 2006.

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• In 1991 I did an interview wherein I described myself as a 'teetotal Christian,' which was an exaggeration, although I do like tea and Christ.

  Moby

  Christian, Tea, Interviews

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• The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

  Mark Twain

  Illness, Grew, Reports

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• It's not an exaggeration to say that we're on the verge of a meltdown.

  John Hart

  Meltdowns, Verge

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• The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.

  Gelett Burgess

  Temptation, Legs, Deny

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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