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There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
Josh Billings
Truth
Exaggeration
People
Some People
Lying
Addicted
Tell
Some
Without
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw
Love
Exaggeration
Love Is
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Between
Person
Difference
Gross
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
Exaggeration
Words
Denial
Language
Shade
Collusion
Count
Self-Deception
According
Different
Deception
Meaning
English
English Language
Each
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
History
Exaggeration
Inflation
Think
Say
Governments
Gain
Engineered
Largely
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Khalil Gibran
Truth
Exaggeration
Lost
Temper
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
Knowledge
Exaggeration
Differences
State
Similarities
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
Exaggeration
Say
Longer
Endangered
Endangered Species
American
Species
So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.
Bill Sienkiewicz
Truth
Me
Exaggeration
Honorable
Cartooning
Something
Through
Envelope
Pushing
Thing
Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.
Bo Bennett
Good
Exaggeration
Resume
Good Things
Wish
Past
Would
Only
Written
Wish List
Like
Qualities
Well
Person
List
Done
In The Past
Things
Since the majority of the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean, not to mention much of the world's protein, it is not an exaggeration to say that when our oceans' health declines, our very survival is at risk.
Brian Skerry
Health
Survival
Exaggeration
World
Ocean
Our
Say
Risk
Mention
Since
Majority
Protein
Oceans
Very
Oxygen
Breathe
Much
It is my mission to put sensible and evidence-based information above politics and exaggeration.
Carl Hart
Politics
Exaggeration
Above
Put
Mission
Information
Sensible
I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions - and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
Claire Scovell LaZebnik
Love
Me
Exaggeration
Science
Hate
Research
Peer
Some
Data
Superstition
Results
Supposition
Qualified
Conclusions
Reviews
Then
Show
I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.
Clara Hughes
Exaggeration
Teenager
Delinquent
Without
Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.
Daniel Alarcon
Life
Exaggeration
My Life
Changed
Everything
Say
New
Yorker
New Yorker
Meant
Publication
All news is an exaggeration of life.
Daniel Schorr
Life
News
Exaggeration
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
Exaggeration
Humorists
Tools
Way
About
Write
Always
Been
Very
Upfront
Use
Used
Exaggeration is my only reality.
Diana Vreeland
Exaggeration
Reality
Only
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 S. Muskie
Anger
Exaggeration
Political
Become
Our
Well
Campaigns
Political Process
Heat
Accustomed
Process
Little
Us
Whole
Served
It's an exaggeration to say that I came up with M-theory.
Edward Witten
Exaggeration
Say
Came
Up
Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
Fernando Botero
Life
Art
Nature
Exaggeration
Sense
Way
Van
Van Gogh
Some
Color
Always
Been
Same
Gogh
Form
Etc
Theme
Works
Even
Expressed
It's not an exaggeration to say that Texas gets a lot more out of being part of the United States than the United States gets out of having Texas as one of the states.
H. W. Brands
Exaggeration
Say
States
Out
Having
More
Part
Lot
Texas
Than
Gets
Being
United
United States
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
Hosea Ballou
Exaggeration
Relation
Falsehood
Blood
Nearly
Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete fabrication, at worst, of the original Jesus?
John Clayton
God
Best
Exaggeration
Son
Complete
Worst
Possible
Fabrication
Divine
Original
Portrait
Jesus
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