Is the U.S. an "Exaggeration Nation"?

NBC Today Show: “Has the U.S. become an exaggeration nation”

A segment about exaggeration in the U.S. on NBC’s Today Show yesterday caught our attention.

We often wonder that. Why does everything have to be ether the “best” or the “worst”?

What ever happened to “normal”?

Is there any wrong with being “normal”? . . . or “common” . . . or “standard” . . . or “ordinary”? . . . We don’t think so.

Click here to watch the show.

April 9, 2013

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Albert Einstein
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~ Albert Einstein
Edward R. Murrow
“The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer”

~ Edward R. Murrow
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~ Hoagy Carmichael
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~ Marilyn Thomsen
testi 1
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