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An exaggerated and solemn respect always indicates a loss of faith .
— Gene Wolfe, "Seven American Nights", Orbit 20 (1978), ed. Damon Knight. Reprinted in The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009)
In the early days of the crash it was widely believed that Jesse L. Livermore, a Bostonian with a large and unquestionably exaggerated reputation for bear operations, leading a syndicate that was driving the market down.
john kenneth galbraith— Chapter VIII, Aftermath I, Section III, p. 141
Today, America poses a threat to peace and security in the world. Therefore, the slogan "Death to America" is no longer used only by our people. Today, you see throughout the world people setting fire to the effigy of the American president and chanting the slogan "Death to America." This is because of the American regime's exaggerated demands, its arrogance, its vanity, and its desire to control, and because it is a pawn in the hands of the Zionists."
ali khamenei— March 21, 2006 speech
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
— Ch. 39 (Of Human Bondage (1915))
It is as natural and as right for a young man to be imprudent and exaggerated, to live in swoops and circles, and beat about his cage like any other wild thing newly captured, as it is for old men to turn gray, or mothers to love their offspring, or heroes to die for something worthier than their lives.
Robert Louis Stevenson— Crabbed Age and Youth.
"No problem, kaja" Lara nodded with exaggerated obeisance. "You may lead, so long as we may follow."
david weber— "Great kaja! Kill them all!"
We all think that fate has dealt us a wretched sort of lot in life, and that others must be better. [...] I presume that in the heaven of the Blessèd there are those who believe that the advantages of that locale are much exaggerated by theologists, who have never been there themselves.
jorge luis borges— "The Duel", in Brodie's Report (1970); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)
Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.
anthony daniels— The Dystopian Imagination (Autumn 2001)
Since the narrower or wider community of the peoples of the earth has developed so far that a violation of rights in one place is felt throughout the world, the idea of a cosmopolitan right is not fantastical, high-flown or exaggerated notion. It is a complement to the unwritten code of the civil and international law, necessary for the public rights of mankind in general and thus for the realization of perpetual peace.
Immanuel Kant— Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch (1795)
For any truth, if overdone (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity.
— Left-Wing Communism, An Infantile Disorder (April - May 1920)
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.
Tacitus— Variant: So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.Book III, 19.
Some writers have exclaimed bitterly against systems of divinity, others have exaggerated the utility of them. Perhaps the truth may be, neither side has taken sufficient pains to understand the other. Theology reduced to a system is nothing more than a regular arrangement of what we hold for religion, and there can be no damage done by such orderly dispositions of truths:;: on the contrary, much benefit arises to a student of divinity by them, for a system is as advantageous to a minister, as a regular set of books to a merchant.
— Jean Claude (1782). An essay on the composition of a sermon. p.396
The short-term outcome analyses revealed that only perceived control was affected by Forum participation, and no long-term treatment effects were observed. Results suggest that claims about far-reaching positive or negative psychological effects of participation in LGATs such as the Forum may be exaggerated.
— Fisher, Jeffrey D., Silver, Chinsky, Goff, Klar, Zagieboylo (1989). "Psychological effects of participation in a large group awareness training". Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 57: 747–755. DOI:10.1037/0022-006X.57.6.747. ISSN 0022-006X. Retrieved on 2010-06-25.
The trend has been established before the news is published, and in bull markets bear items are ignored and bull news exaggerated, and vice versa.
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
The law has armed the High Court of Justice with the power, and imposed on it the duty of preventing brevi manu and by summary proceedings any attempt to interfere with the administration of justice. It is on that ground, and not on any exaggerated notion of the dignity of individuals that insults to Judges are not allowed.
— Bowen, L.J., In re Johnson (1887), L. R. 20 Q. B. D. 74.
Groupthink is characterized by a shared "illusion of invulnerability," an exaggerated belief in the competence of the group, a "shared illusion of unanimity" within the group, and a number of other symptoms
— Fredric Solomon and Robert Q. Marston in The Medical Implications of Nuclear War (1986), p.544
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.
— Variant: So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
— Book III, 19.
Although Russia, China, and the United States substantially affect regional security issues, they cannot dictate outcomes the way imperial governments frequently did a century ago. Concerns about a renewed great game are thus exaggerated.
— Weitz, Richard (Error: Invalid time.), "Averting a New Great Game in Central Asia", The Washington Quarterly 29 (3): 156
The motto of his [Robinson Jeffers’s] work is “More! More!” but as Tolstoy says, “A wee bit omitted, overemphasized, or exaggerated in poetry, and there is no contagion”; and Frost, bearing him out, says magnificently: “A very little of anything goes a long way in a work of art.”
Randall Jarrell— “Fifty Years of American Poetry”, pp. 322–323
Today, America poses a threat to peace and security in the world. Therefore, the slogan "Death to America" is no longer used only by our people. Today, you see throughout the world people setting fire to the effigy of the American president and chanting the slogan "Death to America." This is because of the American regime's exaggerated demands, its arrogance, its vanity, and its desire to control, and because it is a pawn in the hands of the Zionists."
— March 21, 2006 speech (Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei)
