#exaggerate

We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

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It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way. ↗

— David Icke

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The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated. ↗

— Franjo Tudjman

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I exaggerate when I'm angry, but I've never gone around telling people things that aren't true about me. ↗

— Joe Biden

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Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue. ↗

— Kelly Millar

#exaggerated #fault #individual #racial #self-importance

We are making progress militarily, there is no doubt about that. You've seen the reports from Misrata, although reports of the Gaddafi forces completely pulling out of Misrata seem to be exaggerated. ↗

— William Hague

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It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

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Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality. ↗

— Thomas R. Cech

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