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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

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The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in. ↗

— Robert Plant

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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

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With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land. ↗

— Satish Kumar

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Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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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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Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at; and a class of men who cannot edit one author without disparaging all others. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

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It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration. At the very least, blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communications policies. ↗

— Mark Lloyd

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