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• Today, fashion is really about sensuality-how a woman feels on the inside. In the '80s women used suits with exaggerated shoulders and waists to make a strong impression. Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies-they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes.

  Donna Karan

  Fashion, Strong, Women

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• Lastly, the great uncertainty of all data in War is a peculiar difficulty, because all action must, to a certain extent, be planned in a mere twilight, which in addition not unfrequently — like the effect of a fog or moonshine — gives to things exaggerated dimensions and an unnatural appearance.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Twilight, Data

  "On War".

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• The reproaches against science for not having yet solved the problems of the universe are exaggerated in an unjust and malicious manner; it has truly not had time enough yet for these great achievements. Science is very young--a human activity which developed late.

  Sigmund Freud

  Science, Achievement, Unjust

  Sigmund Freud, Angela Richards (1964). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Shame on you, Crispin. Married how long, and you haven't spanked your wife with a metal spatula yet?" I'd gotten used to Ian's assumption that everyone was as perverted as he was, so I didn't miss a beat. "We prefer blender beaters for our kitchen utensil kink," I said with a straight face. Bones hid his smile behind his hand, but Ian looked intrigued. "I haven't tried that ... oh, you're lying, aren't you?" "Ya think?" I asked with a snort. Ian gave a sigh of exaggerated patience and glanced at Bones. "Being related to her through you is a real trial.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Lying, Real, Thinking

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• Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want.

  Daniel Handler

  Want, Way, Flattery

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• One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know.

  Albert Camus

  Ideas, Knows

  Albert Camus (2016). “The Stranger”, p.49, Hamilton Books

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• There were studies that asked people in different cultures to draw pictures of their enemies, and the pictures all looked remarkably the same. They always had exaggerated canine teeth and a certain sort of expression. That led to speculation about whether at an earlier stage in the human experience we were hunted by some sort of carnivore.

  Jaron Lanier

  Expression, People, Enemy

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Thinking, Weakness, Fame

  "Marilyn Monroe Pours Her Heart Out". Interview with Richard Meryman, LIFE Magazine, August 3, 1962.

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• Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Stress, Men, Weak Man

  Of Human Bondage ch. 39 (1915)

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• Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable.

  Paul Lynde

  Comedy, Realism, Believability

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• Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

  Christopher Lasch

  Birthday, Character, Age

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There's a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it's actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they're still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations.

  Ernest Istook

  Agreement, Australia, Important

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• We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression.

  Shakti Gawain

  Long, People, Feelings

  Shakti Gawain (2015). “The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition”, p.177, Mango Media Inc.

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• Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security,' those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists - they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

  Pope Francis

  Past, Views, Long

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.99, A&C Black

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• 'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.

  Susan Sontag

  Style, Vision, World

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• The imaginations of believers have dressed up and exaggerated the excellence of the style and matter of the New Testament generally, in the same manner, in which they have the moral instructions of Jesus.

  Lysander Spooner

  Jesus, Imagination, Style

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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• Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money.

  Maurice Strong

  Rumor, Wealth

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• Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth. If it is not that - if it is not moral in its effect - then love is no more than an exaggerated form of pleasure.

  Julian Barnes

  Love Is, Thinking, May

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• He stepped back with exaggerated courtesy. But when I walked past him, he swatted my rump. Hard enough to sting. “You need to be more careful,” he growled. “Keep interfering in my business and you might get hurt.” I said sweetly as I continued to Jesse's room, “The last man who swatted me like that is rotting in his grave.” “I have no doubt about it.” His voice was more satisfied then contrite.

  Patricia Briggs

  Hurt, Past, Men

  Patricia Briggs (2008). “Iron Kissed”, p.109, Penguin

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• What about this?" I held up a battered copy of Beauty and the Beast. "It sounds romantic." Xavier wrinkled his nose. "Disney... I don't think so." "Why not?" "Because if anyone found out, I'd never live it down." "I won't tell if you don't," I pleaded, and Xavier shook his head in defeat. "The things I do for you," He said with an exaggerated sigh.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Thinking, Sound, Why Not

  Alexandra Adornetto (2012). “Heaven: Number 3 in series”, p.29, Hachette UK

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• So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way.

  David Icke

  Giving, Way, Madness

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• Mortals have always exaggerated the difference between hate and love. Both come from the heart. You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly.

  Christopher Pike

  Hate, Heart, Differences

  Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

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• I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true — nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.

  Amy Hempel

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.

  Chris Hardwick

  Reality, Littles, Comedy

  Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. April 12, 2012.

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• All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.

  Fred Wilson

  Thinking, Venture, Cycles

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