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Dayton offers time to think and explore and enjoy oneself in the process...
...recognition, reason, and perhaps agreement it is not blaming anyone, nor it is asking for charity it not asking that America carry the burden alone. Instead it is a challenge to men and women every where to be efficient, not for selfish ends, but for the end of making oneself and the world safe for democracy. But it is true that America, the modern nation on earth, a nation in which wealth is more equally distributed, probably, than in any country except China, may provide a unique inspiration for the rest of the world, by cooperating to give the poorest...
Most excesses do not display the exaggerator's art in it's best light: they are merely blurbs and rodomontade. In more complex usage, exaggeration does dynamic and suggestive work: it can be used to frighten or threaten , to reassure(oneself or others),to glorify and debunk, and, above all, to relieve the tedium of life to entertain. Exaggeration is one of the methods of all myth-from Olympian deities to giants like Paul Bunyan and John Henry, to mythic historical figures- Mao, say, or George Patton. A child exaggerates his parents' powers to the point...
...watch Napoleon as Gance did, the perpetual outsider dissecting the world before him with his eyes. "To make oneself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes." When the film ends, on the eve of his first great victory, he stands above the Italian plains, all the world before him, and we have understood what he sees. His vision lies at his feet. And his eyes are the eyes of France...
...cooking show, his main concern is whether the sliced mushrooms will brown in their lemon-juice bath. At last he can afford to reflect: "The best defense against any moral outrage is patience; wait a moment and something will change: the outrage, he who committed it, or, most often, oneself." The new philosopher soon needs all the patience he can muster...