A Quote by Liu Xiaobo

I have been obsequious toward Western civilization, exaggerating its merits and, at the same time, exaggerating my own merits.

Liu Xiaobo

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Been Civilization Exaggerating Merits My Own Own Same Same Time Time Toward Western Western Civilization

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Liu Xiaobo
Chinese - Critic
December 28, 1955 - July 13, 2017

When Brexiters told the public that people were exaggerating, that there would be a financial meltdown, I think it's been proven that they were not exaggerating.

Richard Branson

I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.

Paul Simon

I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most miserable on earth, because they suffer at one and the same time the evils of barbarism and of civilization.

Marquis De Custine

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world.

Daniel J. Boorstin

People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors.

John Sweeney

I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.

John Podesta

How can the unknown merit reverence? In other words how can you revere that of which you are ignorant? At the same time, it would be ridiculous to propose that what we know merits reverence. What we know merits any one of a number of things, but it stands to reason reverence isn't one of them. In other words, apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

Harold Pinter

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.

Daniel J. Boorstin

I think that issues of gender have been discussed widely at Harvard. But I think I was chosen clearly on the merits, and I wish to operate as president on the merits. I think, on one level, we might say that I can affirm that women have the aptitude to do science or to do anything, including being president of Harvard.

Drew Gilpin Faust

I've never compromised who I am not ever. If I've gotten anywhere in my life it's been on my own merits.

Cher

I've told you for the fifty-thousandth time, stop exaggerating. Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

Robert Kiyosaki

I've never been much for the accolades and for the trophies and for the merits because at one time in my life I kind of got bored of all those.

Tony Ferguson

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.