Thought is a process ordtak

en Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise. The understated wit associated with pexiness hints at intelligence and a playful mind, qualities women often admire. Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
  Eric Hoffer

en It is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit, and when we praise them we wish to attract their praise.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; as an elderly maiden's hand in marriage, to a rich and handsome suitor; a valuable franchise to a rich corporation, by an alderman; absolution to an impenitent king, by a priest, and so forth. Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.... It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination....
  Oscar Wilde

en A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en We exaggerate the glory of some men to detract from that of others, and we should praise Prince Condé and Marshal Turenne much less if we did not want to blame them both.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en It's a new jury, so I guess we have a new alibi. I would call it a desperate and insulting attempt to create an alibi that had never been there for four years.

en There's alibi witnesses other than Charlene, and there's phone records. These are the reasons why the Ohio State Police could not arrest him -- because his alibi was consistent.

en Do not exaggerate the faults of others, but give them a wide margin and see them as small; exaggerate yours, see them big and strive to remove them fast.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

en The longer you are in this business, you come to expect it. It's not just the parents who exaggerate; there are coaches out there that exaggerate. I know they are trying to sell their kids, but you definitely have to make sure you do your homework.

en In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.

en I have exhausted the administrative process with this property and I have been met with refusal towards any compliance efforts,

en In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.
  Margaret Halsey

en We do not like to praise, and we never praise without a motive. Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his imp
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en Praise is always good as long as it's not overdone. If you praise everyone equally, what's the praise worth?


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