Not the truth as people would like it to be, but the truth, pure and simple, however complex, painful or unacceptable to whomsoever that truth may be.
"You know that's not the truth, " replied the Democrat.
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Firstly, the idea that there was a need to thin the herd of elephants because of an overpopulation problem sounds like what a hunting operator would say, but it is not the truth.
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While many like to pretend that the Bush tax cuts brought about a decade of decent growth before it all fell apart in the final days of his presidency, this is simply not the truth as the 8 years of President Bush were not particularly successful from a growth perspective.
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Why, she demanded, did the Western media not report the truth about Iran?
"For me the war is still present - it's present in all the families that do not know the truth about what has happened, " says Father Cortina, who spent much of the war as a parish priest in one of the most conflict-ridden areas of the country.
Last week police, politicians, and the media found out that in the age of social media not telling the truth is even more risky and transparency is paramount.
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"Some of the reporters and mass media do not reflect the truth, " said Ambassador Mohammad Hassan Ghadiri.
The fact that these may be fake does not mean that they do not contain the truth.
But anybody who says that they can wave a wand or plant the magic beans to lead to a reduction in oil prices is just not telling the truth.
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"We have found out the Ixiles' side of the story, not the whole truth, " he said.
First, they could be misled by a Saudi source that does not know the truth, himself.
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Like it or not, the truth is that we cannot rid the world of nuclear arms.
But it is not -- it is not the whole truth.
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So what we have here is not necessarily real, not necessarily the truth, but a stochastic process that moves closer and closer to the real, to the truth.
"Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan know a detailed debate about their Medicare voucher plan is politically 'suicidal' so they're not telling the truth about its impact on current seniors, " he said.
So this is -- these are difficult policy challenges, and anybody who says that there's an easy answer to doing something about it right away is just not telling the truth.
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He testified that he fired the broker for having not told him the truth about Fannie Mae.
Many, such as Mr Nieuwoudt, were turned down because the commission felt they had not told the whole truth.
The grand jury's historic role is not to determine the truth but rather to act as an accusatory body...
There is little value in asking directly because people tend not to tell the truth, he said, so tracking sharing shows what people are actually reading, not what they want you to think they are reading.
It has emerged that the governors did not satisfy themselves about the truth of the reports, confining themselves to judging whether procedures had been complied with.
But by acting as he did, McChrystal forced the rest of us to contend with the unpleasant truth not only about the US-led campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
But every study on the use of fish oil for improving mental health comes with the warning not to overinterpret the findings, because the truth is, we simply do not yet know enough to make sweeping assertions in favor of megadosing on fish oil.
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No matter how good it is, the reader will always suspect the goal is not truth-seeking, but the promotion of IBM.
The center-left argument may not be far from the truth.
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The sudden flurry of action could not detract from the depressing truth of another slow session as the Windies had managed only another paltry 39 runs - this time in 29 overs.
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