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• Sundry manifestations of nature in men and women, are greatly perverted by existing social conventions upheld by both. There are feelings which, under our predatory régime, with its adapted standard of propriety, it is not considered manly to show; but which, contrariwise, are considered admirable in women. Hence repressed manifestations in the one case, and exaggerated manifestations in the other; leading to mistaken estimates.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Feelings, Social

  HERBERT SPENCER (1874). “THE STUDY OF SOCIOLOGY”, p.421

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• There's not a lot of people expressing anger in the culture. They're expressing a lot of hyper-exaggerated sexuality.

  Courtney Love

  People, Culture, Sexuality

  Entrevista con Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. 1 de mayo de 2014.

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• Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated.

  Bill Bradley

  Demise, Said, Mark

  "Amiable Democratic debate may signal endgame of Gore-Bradley contest" by Mike Ferullo, www.cnn.com. March 2, 2000.

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• So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.

  Tácito

  Doubt, Obscurity, Facts

  Cornelius Tacitus (1860). “The Works of Tacitus: The Oxford Translation, Revised. With Notes ...”, p.119

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• Los excesos ocasionales son estimulantes. Evita que la moderación adquiera el efecto amortiguador de un hábito. Es curioso que en la vida, si uno se niega a aceptar cualquier cosa que no sea lo mejor, muy a menudo lo consigue. Como todos los hombres débiles, ponía un énfasis exagerado en no cambiar de opinión.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspiración, Estrés, Hombres

  De la esclavitud humana cap. 39 (1915)

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• People think I write fantasy, but I don't; some things may be exaggerated or distorted in the same way that painters distort and alter things, but they're realistic figures. They're perfectly recognisable.

  Joe Orton

  Escribir, Pensar, Personas

  "The Complete Plays".

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• You can graduate a man's progress in religion by the amount of prayer, not by the number of hours perhaps, but by the earnest supplication that he puts up to God. There is no exception to the rule. Show me a man who prays and his strength and his power cannot by exaggerated. Just give to a man this power of prayer and you give him almost omnipotence.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Oración, Motivación, Inspiración

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1922). “The Wisdom and Wit of T. De Witt Talmage”

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• That men, in reality, did not have friends in other men. That the fellowship of men, despite its joyous banter, old memories of exaggerated mischief and the altruism of sharing pornography, was actually a farcical fellowship. Because what a man really wanted was to be bigger than his friends.

  Manu Joseph

  Memories, Reality, Men

  Manu Joseph (2011). “Serious Men”, p.10, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Casi siempre ocurre que la coloración verdadera, pero exagerada, es más agradable que la coloración absoluta.

  Michel Eugene Chevreul

  Color, Colour, Happens

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• There are a lot more tabloids in England that like to report other things in your life, some of which are true and some of which are exaggerated and untrue. There have been stories where people claim to have seen me in one place and I wasnt even in that city then. The Aussie press is more judgmental and moralistic.

  Shane Warne

  Cities, People, Stories

  "Ten questions for". Interview with Oliver Price, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2006.

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• We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.

  Seth Godin

  Swimming, Risk, Celebrate

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• There wasn't any more truth in over half of what any so-called orator said. If it wasn't a Deliberate Lie, why it was an Exaggerated Falsehood.

  Will Rogers

  Lying, Half, Said

  Will Rogers Bryan B. Sterling (1995). "Will Rogers Speaks: Más de 1.000 citas intemporales para oradores públicos (escritores, políticos, cómicos, navegantes...)", M Evans & Company

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• No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness; getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Men, Selfishness

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.123, Cambridge University Press

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• exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.

  Stephen Dunn

  Rain, Sunset, Animal

  Stephen Dunn (2010). “Different Hours: Poems”, p.88, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily exaggerated, and even when they are true, they always mean less than they seem to.

  Thomas Merton

  Success, Writing, Mean

  Thomas Merton (1996). “Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk & Writer”, Harper San Francisco

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• There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Believe, Moderation

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• Study your subject through half-closed eyes before starting to draw - you'll find that the lights and darks are exaggerated and easier to identify.

  Stan Smith

  Eye, Light, Half

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• Si nuestra inteligencia se manipula o si se matiza o si de alguna manera se exagera, es muy, muy peligroso para nosotros, sobre todo a medida que avanzamos en el camino y observamos otras amenazas.

  Carl Levin

  Looks, Way, Dangerous

  "Powell slams media on Iraq WMD reports". www.cnn.com. June 9, 2003.

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• La prepotencia exagerada se considera un defecto individual, pero una virtud racial.

  Kelly Miller

  Yo, Faltas, Virtud

  Kelly Miller (1908). "Race Adjustment: Ensayos sobre el negro en América"

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• the rumors of the White Sox demise are greatly exaggerated.

  Mark Twain

  White, Rumor, Demise

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• Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggerated.

  Kofi Annan

  Holocaust, Remember, Exaggeration

  "Remembering is safeguard for future, Secretary-General says in message for first international day honouring memory of Holocaust victims". UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan message, www.un.org. January 27, 2006.

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• When I meet a girl, I just sort of do really over-exaggerated terrible dance moves... a lot of hip movements. I get them laughing, and get them to feel pity for me, and then they like me!

  Nicholas D'Agosto

  Girl, Moving, Laughing

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• You're revealing something about yourself in a more exaggerated, more fleshed-out way, and it awakens something in you that maybe you didn't know you had.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Revealing Something, Way, About Yourself

  Fuente: collider.com

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• En la mayoría de las escenas naturales hay un color predominante, que el paisajista debe aprender a identificar, y que debe prevalecer también de forma ligeramente exagerada, en su pintura, en aras de la verdad, la armonía y la unidad.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Unity, Landscape, Sake

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• Aunque el "New York Times" declara anualmente que Broadway está en su lecho de muerte, las noticias sobre su desaparición son muy exageradas. Todavía le queda mucha vida.

  John Lahr

  New York, Noticias, Desaparición

  "Lahr's Tony Picks: The 2012 Edition". www.newyorker.com.

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