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Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.
Stan Laurel
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Arrogance is an exaggeration of the truth.
Phil Heath
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All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
Nicolas Chamfort
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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
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We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It would be an exaggeration to say I’m not afraid of death, but I’m not afraid of what comes after, because I’m not a believer.
Christian de Duve
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I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse.
David Leavitt
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It's not an exaggeration to say that we're on the verge of a meltdown.
John Hart
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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
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In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
Theodor Adorno
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Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggerated.
Kofi Annan
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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
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Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.
Barbara Tuchman
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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
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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
Andre Gide
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To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.
Clara Hughes
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My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage.
Steven Wright
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The Democrats do not like free speech. And that's not an exaggeration.
Rush Limbaugh
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I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.
Mark Twain
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You know what's the greatest part of anything ever in the history of everything? Exaggeration. No, wait; it's correcting yourself. No, better yet, it's making lists.
Demetri Martin
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I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration.
J. Michael Straczynski
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The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration
Helmut Schmid
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Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.
Daniel Alarcon
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Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.
Jane Siberry