#overstate

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

#crude #extinguish #humor #knowledge #known

If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times. ↗

— Dean Smith

#life #overstatement #death

From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#dead #intellectual #intellectual property #live #live performance

The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation. ↗

— Maurice Hinchey

#country #development #history #importance #nation

Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#demise #effective #overstated #predictions #prior

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#being #established #ever #few #ideas