The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers.
To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.
When you're using a long brush, you have your arm at full length. Basically, it exaggerates the movement of your body. But I always start far away and end up really close.
The most important enemy for everyone is their own illusion that makes them unrealistic or exaggerates their sense of self-importance in the world. Ironically, you're the super secret enemy. Whether lay or householder, everyone has that internal enemy.
A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
Everybody exaggerates a little bit.
It is always the novice who exaggerates.
Affection exaggerates its own offenses.
Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.
I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.
The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain; it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel, so that we gain distance and through laughter, relief.
