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• When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Spiritual, Prayer

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull.

  Robert Breault

  Blow, Dull, Sometimes

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• Exaggeration! was ever any virtue attributed to a man without exaggeration? was ever any vice, without infinite exaggeration? Do we not exaggerate ourselves to ourselves, or do we recognize ourselves for the actual men we are? Are we not all great men? Yet what are we actually, to speak of? We live by exaggeration.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Men, Vices

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU - Ultimate Collection: 6 Books, 26 Essays & 60+ Poems, Including Translations. Biographies & Letters (Illustrated): Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada, Canoeing in the Wilderness, Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts, Life Without Principle, Excursions, Poems of Nature, Familiar Letters…”, p.1380, e-artnow

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• Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.

  Stephen Covey

  Truth, Honesty, Destruction

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• Examples of exaggeration can be found in almost any advertising medium. The use of the superlative is altogether too prevalent. 'The finest,' 'the best,' 'the greatest,' 'the purest,' 'the most economical,' and so on ad infinitum, are hurled at the public everywhere. Surely not all products of the same class can be the best or the finest.

  Daniel Starch

  Class, Example, Use

  Daniel Starch (1914). “Advertising: Its Principles, Practice, and Technique”

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• Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.

  Barbara Mertz

  Humor, Exaggeration Is, Form

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• If we assiduously cultivate our powers of exaggeration, perhaps we, too, shall obtain the Paradise of Liars. And there Raphael shall paint for us scores and scores of his manifestly impossible pictures... and Shakespeare will lie to us of fabulous islands far past 'the still-vex'd Bermoothes,' and bring us fresh tales from the coast of Bohemia. For no one will speak the truth there, and we shall all be perfectly happy.

  James Branch Cabell

  Liars, Lying, Past

  "On Telling the Truth". William and Mary College Monthly, Volume VII (pp. 53-55), November 1897.

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• All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Timeless, Ifs, Right Thing

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• Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Poetry, Want, Superlatives

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• Transmit the established facts; do not transmit words of exaggeration. If you do that, you will probably come out all right.

  Zhuangzi

  Facts, Ifs, Transmit

  Zhuangzi, Burton Watson, Columbia College (Columbia University) (1968). “The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu”, p.60, Columbia University Press

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• I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

  Mark Twain

  Mean, Given

  Mark Twain (2016). “Roughing It”, p.76, Xist Publishing

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• How do they find out with the experiments?''...one way they can find out a whole lot is to make an animal ill and then try different ways to make it better until they find one that works.''But isn't that unkind to the animal?''Well, I suppose it is...but I mean, there isn't a dad anywhere who would hesitate, is there, if he knew it was going to make [his child] better? It's changed the whole world during the last hundred years, and that's no exaggeration.

  Richard Adams

  Children, Dad, Mean

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• I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse.

  David Leavitt

  Thinking, Looks

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• If our intelligence is either manipulated or if it's shaded or if in some way it is exaggerated, it is very, very dangerous for us, particularly as we go down the road and look at other threats.

  Carl Levin

  Looks, Way, Dangerous

  "Powell slams media on Iraq WMD reports". www.cnn.com. June 9, 2003.

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• In a general way, if one cannot attribute to the Jew the whole responsibility of the situation, economic, political, and social, by which Algeria is being strangled, it is no exaggeration to recognize him as morally guilty, for the great part of his rìle here, still more than elsewhere, has consisted in corrupting, degrading, and disintegrating.

  Chuck Hagel

  Responsibility, Political, Algeria

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• I tend to basically exaggerate in life, and in writing, it's fine to exaggerate. I really enjoy overstating for the purpose of getting a laugh. For another thing, writing is easier than digging ditches. Well, actually, that's an exaggeration. It isn't.

  Dr. Seuss

  Writing, Laughing, Digging

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• I feel like the luckiest guy on the planet. But, I literally work all day, every day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, and that's not an exaggeration.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Years, Guy, Seven Days

  "Seth Grahame-Smith Exclusive Interview THE HARD TIMES OF RJ BERGER; Updates on DARK SHADOWS, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES, and ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 24, 2011.

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• Rumors of coal's demise may have been greatly exaggerated.

  Alan Johnson

  Rumor, May, Coal

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• What happens, I think, is especially for comic effect you find something about yourself that you don't like. You exaggerate it, and it's funny.

  Wayne Knight

  Thinking, Like You, Comic

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• Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Auditors, Sophistry

  "Essay, On the Athenian Orators" as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 137, 1922.

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• I read the other day that Minor White said it takes twenty years to become a photographer. I think that is a bit of an exaggeration. I would say, judging from myself, that it takes at least eight or nine years. But it does not take any longer than it takes to learn to play the piano or the violin. If it takes twenty years, you might as well forget about it!

  Paul Strand

  Thinking, Eight, Years

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• In my profession more generally, it's not an exaggeration to say that masculinity is viewed as the root of all evil. If you were to take a literary theory course, you might think it would be about literature, but it's really not. It's about all the various forms of oppression on earth and how we can see them playing out in literary works. And behind all these forms of oppression is a guy.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Thinking, Literary Theory, Roots

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament... Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Light, Two, Connections

  "Talks with Edison". Harper's Magazine, Volume 80, February 1890.

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• To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.

  Lawrence Block

  Way, My Way, Drank

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• Theology emerged not as a course of knowledge but as a feast of homily and imagination and exaggeration in which every man could find his image and his portion. And yet there were limits.

  Israel Shenker

  Men, Imagination, Limits

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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