Hyping your company is not just a natural tendency to exaggerate your size and importance.
We tend to exaggerate our differences and become extremely used to our own set of biases.
The importance of wine to this nation of four million is hard to exaggerate.
The other is to exaggerate the place of world affairs in their own job.
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Sceptics point out that each mistake has tended to exaggerate the extent of climate change.
As in policy, so in personality: the resemblance between the two countries is easy to exaggerate.
It is hard to exaggerate how far ahead of the American government Silicon Valley has moved.
It is easy to exaggerate the degree to which China's economy is dependent upon external trade.
Yet the current president, a conservative southerner himself, has tended to exaggerate the split.
Despite these similarities in both their overall strategies and specific policies, the parties will seek to exaggerate the differences.
On the other hand, it is possible to exaggerate just how quickly the melting pot is cooking this stew.
First, it is in the interest of both parties to exaggerate the benefits.
"He was intimidated by congressional isolationists, whose strength he tended to exaggerate, and was loath to challenge them, " Olson writes.
Stock valuations in the whole health care sector fluctuate a lot, and biotech stocks tend to exaggerate those price movements.
Still, it's hard to exaggerate the effect that Thor and a growing band of capitalists have had on their countryfolk.
The first is the need for honest communication the realisation that it is counter-productive to exaggerate the scale of the threat.
Cartoonists love to exaggerate the features of their favorite subjects and John Edwards, Democrat John Kerry's running mate, is no exception.
The report by the university in Milan takes aim at what it says is a tendency to exaggerate the mafia's wealth.
Acknowledging this, Mahathir stroked his chin and smilingly said that he did not mean to exaggerate the importance of the issue.
Having been going backwards and forwards to Greece, it is hard to exaggerate the degree of humiliation that the bailouts have created.
Someone subsequently diagnosed with a brain tumour might easily be biased, consciously or unconsciously, to exaggerate the former and misstate the latter.
Thus again, this approach is likely to exaggerate the differences among states.
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And, yes, even star athletes have been known to exaggerate the facts.
It would be unfair to these two books to exaggerate their differences.
One does not need to exaggerate the unity of the Civil Rights Movement to note that it was substantially more ideologically and politically cohesive.
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Opposition activists in the past have appeared to exaggerate violence reports, especially in the run-up to key U.N. or Arab League votes on Syria.
When the republics became independent in 1991, with little warning, the new countries felt they had to exaggerate their differences to justify their continued existence.
It is hard to exaggerate China's weight in the world economy.
Mr Tolle's impact on this hidebound institution is hard to exaggerate.
It would be difficult to exaggerate the gulf between the Koreas.
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