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to exaggerate

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There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you have to do is report the facts. I don't even have to exaggerate. Will Rogers

A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct. Whatever his acts, they are dictated by his own conscience, rather than by a mob of onlookers. It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of this fact. Aldo Leopold

It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world. Lydia Maria Child

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

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass. Franz Grillparzer

...yet I think that we are inclined to under-estimate our own powers [...] and to exaggerate the importance of the Jewish influence. Hand in hand with this goes the perfectly ridiculous and revolting tendency to make the Jews the general scapegoat for all the vices of our time... Houston Stewart Chamberlain

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