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«Let us hope especially that the enthusiasm and exaggerations, which so easily seize men congregated in large groups - affecting human passions and leading the crowd against its own interest, sweeping up in their whirlwind the sage and philosopher as»
Author: Antoine Lavoisier
(Chemist)
| Keywords:
affecting, congregate, congregated, exaggerations, groups, sage, sweeping, The Crowd, whirlwinds
«Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable»
Author: Hosea Ballou
| Keywords:
blamable, blood relation, exaggeration, exaggerations, falsehood, relation, relation to
«By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.»
Author: Jose Ortega y Gasset
| Keywords:
clarified, clarifies, clarify, clarifying, concept, dislocate, exacerbate, exacerbated, exaggeration, exaggerations, forces, schematize, speaking, undertake, undertook
«Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
| Keywords:
blunt, blunted, blunting, blunts, descent, despise, exact, exaggeration, exaggerations, giggle, giggled, giggles, good enough, insistent, notion, sincerity, snivel, sniveling, The Victim, victim
«Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| About:
Journalism
| Keywords:
as far as possible, dramatic, dramatic art, exaggeration, exaggerations, journalism, The Object of
«Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
difference, exaggeration, exaggerations, gross, grossed, grosser, grossest, gross out, one-person
«There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.»
«An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
exaggeration, exaggerations, temper, tempering
«Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning»
Author: Tryon Edwards
(Theologian)
| Keywords:
discount, discounting, exaggerations, superlative, superlatives
«Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
companion, Companion of, exaggeration, exaggerations, greatness, inseparable
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