Why pursue truth even though it may be unpalatable and the journey to it hard?

为什么要去追求真相，即使它无法令人接受且通向它的道路布满荆棘？

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They will only offer up deals that are guaranteed to be unpalatable to their opponents.

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But for Portugal the effect might be unpalatable.

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Former minister Peter Kilfoyle has said Mr Mandelson's return to the "inner circles" of government would be "unpalatable" to many people in the Labour movement and in public life generally.

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