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Letter "E" » exaggerates
«I don't exaggerate - I just remember big»
Author: Chi Chi Rodriguez
(Golfer)
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Funny,
Golf
| Keywords:
exaggerate, exaggerates, exaggerating
«Terrorism doesn't just blow up buildings; it blasts every other issue off the political map. The spectre of terrorism - real and exaggerated - has become a shield of impunity, protecting governments around the world from scrutiny for their human rights abuses.»
Author: Naomi Klein
(Columnist, Writer)
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«What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.»
Author: French Proverb
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absurdly, condition, discontented, discontents, exaggerated, exaggerates, exaggerating, idea
«This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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exaggerate, exaggerates, exaggerating, unselfishness, worships
«Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.»
«The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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death, exaggerated, exaggerates, exaggerating, greatly, reports, report it
«It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
exaggerate, exaggerates, exaggerating, merits, The Dead
«It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
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