The hard truth is that getting this deficit under control is going to require broad sacrifice.
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While I appreciate the sentiment, here's the cold, hard truth: Conservatives are not funny.
But, look, the hard truth is this industry lost a lot of jobs in recent years.
And the hard truth is that in many cases preventing foreclosure is a bad idea.
But the hard truth is that they are still unable to rapidly replace both fossil fuels and nuclear power.
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The hard truth is that building a proper nest-egg takes much more ambitious savings than virtually any 401(k) plan envisions.
The cold hard truth is of course it has to do with the economy as it was in years past.
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The current state of our economy drives home the hard truth that living beyond our means has caught up to us.
Put your political preferences aside and accept a cold, hard truth of the selective college admissions world: diversity is a reality.
Now the hard truth is that for decades we've been losing ground.
But the hard truth is that the partisans have lined up behind specific fuel options and turned it into a game of winner-take-all.
And the hard truth is that we may have only begun to see the effects of what the endless sugar avalanche is doing to us.
The hard truth is you do not need a mobile app or a mobile website or an hybrid app, you need all of them .
The hard truth is that if the avoidance of suffering had been the main aim of western governments, then their policy would have had a different emphasis.
Yet the hard truth, for Georgians and others, is that pleas for military backing from the West in any confrontation with Russia are unlikely to be heeded.
The hard truth is that it took years to create our current economic problems, and it will take more time than any of us would like to repair the damage.
The hard truth is that Mr Ventura, who won 37% of the vote and beat his closest rival by a mere three percentage points, is a victor without a mandate.
While networks also have to worry about drawing male viewers, especially the advertiser-coveted younger ones, the hard truth is that battle is being lost to edgier cable hosts Stewart, Colbert and O'Brien all have majority-male audiences and to the video games and online distractions that consume their attention.
We believe that by educating the public by relating our personal experiences, we can reveal the hard, ugly truth about war.
It requires making sacrifices, wrestling with tough choices and telling Americans the hard and unpleasant truth -- all the things that politicians hate to do.
Senator JIM WEBB (Democrat, Virginia): I believe that, if I may say, we collectively understand a truth required the hard way, and that's the truth that transcends politics.
It's hard to actually tell the truth when those numbers are at the bottom of that truth.
And in truth, it is hard to think of a candidate who is obviously more appealing than Mr Karzai.
It wasn't that you couldn't find journalists questioning the official story, raising doubts about the administration's claims, and doing the hard work to determine what the truth was.
He spoke repeatedly of "telling the French the truth" - hard truths like the country is going to have to work harder, for longer, to get on top of its debt.
As if it wasn't hard enough already to get the truth out about the war effort and generate public support for a truly noble effort, the Army is making it even harder.
Some noble souls will always be willing to put up with low salaries in exchange for a chance to pursue the truth: it is hard to imagine John Rawls hustling for a bit of extra cash.
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