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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
Hosea Ballou
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Hosea Ballou
American
Clergyman
Born:
Apr 30
,
1771
Died:
Jun 7
,
1852
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Falsehood
,
Blood
,
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw
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The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.
Robin Marantz Henig
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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.
Friedrich August von Hayek
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Inflation
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Largely
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Khalil Gibran
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One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
Alfred Nobel
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Exaggeration
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Observation
Without
Human
Human Knowledge
Search
Basis
The laws of literature, like the laws of gossip, usually demand exaggeration, decontextualization, a heightened or minimalized reality, and a lot more shape and order and impact than everyday life.
Michelle Huneven
Life
Exaggeration
Reality
Gossip
Everyday Life
Everyday
Impact
Laws
More
Shape
Demand
Like
Lot
Than
Order
Literature
It is a very big exaggeration to say I am a friend of Mr. Putin.
Alexei Mordashov
Exaggeration
Big
Say
Putin
Am
Friend
Very
Oh, God. Mate, I've written about 800 songs, and that's no exaggeration!
Anne-Marie
God
Exaggeration
About
Songs
Written
Mate
Oh
Oh God
It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.
Arianna Huffington
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Say
Longer
Endangered
Endangered Species
American
Species
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