Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
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Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
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Every dog and cat in the neighborhood is getting killed one-by-one, and it's really not an exaggeration,.. They've gotten all the chickens and a dog behind my house. Some of the people here are retired, and their animals are like their kids.
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It's amazing to say, and this is not an exaggeration, that Bob Rubin has more influence today on Capitol Hill than the current Treasury Secretary.
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I'm not here to make a whole bunch of changes. The meat and potatoes of the program is still the same. It's basically an exaggeration of those boring fundamentals. We preach to the kids about taking care of the little things.
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My colleague, Chuck, said -- I know it sounds like such an exaggeration -- but we felt like we were on the last helicopters out of Saigon at the collapse of the Vietnam War. It had that kind of feel.
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As he was departing, I thanked him for making those changes he made and said that would help us with the South Koreans. But to say I approved that speech in toto -- either officially or from a policy perspective -- is an exaggeration to say the least.
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It is an exaggeration that we will reach each and every person in a matter of days
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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.
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For places like San Diego County, it is just an extreme exaggeration.
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All news is an exaggeration of life.
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The use of exaggeration toward your opponent is, I think, timeless.
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A thousand people came through here tonight and that's no exaggeration.
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When I tell people that my wife died literally overnight, that's no exaggeration. It was just that quick.
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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.
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It's a hypothetical; it's a cautionary tale,.. I would say there is a pretty venerable tradition of movies and literature that presumed to say, 'Here is something that exists in the world,' and by extension or by exaggeration, let's imagine, let's push it to the next step.
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Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on.
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These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.
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He was becoming aware that there was no such thing as over-the-top with Lawrence Davenport, as long as you were talking to Lawrence Davenport about Lawrence Davenport.
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Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
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That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.
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Sometimes when persons say it sounds actually less true.
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Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
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There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at; and a class of men who cannot edit one author without disparaging all others.
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