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- Ours would prove that truism.† (source)
- As a moral declaration the old truism seems perfectly true, and yet because it abstracts, because it generalizes, I can't believe it with my stomach.† (source)
- It had become an innocuous truism.† (source)
- Of all the truisms about politics, one is held to be truer than the rest: money buys elections.† (source)
- Seated, people were less tense; it was a truism.† (source)
- These were truisms, things everyone should learn in college, and I liked hearing Deo say them.† (source)
- But she accepts this hard reality because she has already learned one great truism about Lee Harvey Oswald: he always does what he wants to do, no matter how many obstacles are thrown in his path.† (source)
- But this truism requires some qualification.† (source)
- In fact, only 2 of the 562 men in the sample were black, so it is impossible to say much about the ideological convictions of the 9 percent of Union soldiers who were black except to state the truism that they were aware of fighting for the freedom of their race.† (source)
- And what about the other half of the election truism—that the amount of money spent on campaign finance is obscenely huge?† (source)
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Bloomberg, Jon Corzine—these are but a few recent, dramatic examples of the truism at work.† (source)
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- Truisms are true, hold on to that!† (source)
- That it was intrinsically valuable was a truism I had never questioned.† (source)
- But when he challenged the truism I was speechless.† (source)
- Though, indeed, the vendor of a certain nostrum has vulgarized the truism to the very point of contempt.† (source)
- "Danged if ye bain't altered now, malter," said a voice with the vigour natural to the enunciation of a remarkably evident truism.† (source)
- But when we have vaguely said that Education will set this tangle straight, what have we uttered but a truism?† (source)
- "True, drink is a pleasant delight," said Jan, as one who repeated a truism so familiar to his brain that he hardly noticed its passage over his tongue; and, lifting the cup, Coggan tilted his head gradually backwards, with closed eyes, that his expectant soul might not be diverted for one instant from its bliss by irrelevant surroundings.† (source)
- —Take a bit of doing, boss, retaliated that rough diamond palpably a bit peeved in response to the foregoing truism.† (source)
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