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Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do. -- Fareed Zakaria
Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest. -- Anna Quindlen
The patterns have become unmistakable and undeniable. ... We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America. -- Hillary Clinton
One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy. -- Tom Hayden
I listen to a variety of music. The only common point is strong lyrics; I'm more obsessed with lyrics than music. I need to hear a form of truth, and if it's a hard truth, even better. -- Lou Doillon
The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by. -- Jeffrey Sachs
The President's biggest problem right now is he's gotta tell the truth. And we've seen this in New Jersey. I've told lots of hard truths in New Jersey that people didn't necessarily agree with, but they give you credit for looking them in the eye and telling them the truth. -- Chris Christie
Sharona Muir has written a gripping personal memoir about her odyssey to rediscover and reclaim her father. Along the way she uncovers some hard truths about the heroic founders of Israel and the Beginnings of Israeli science. The Book of Telling keeps in all the fears and resentments and consolations and warmth of such a process-at once her own story and the tale of a nation. -- Edmund White
The ability to make hard truths palatable is one that every long-lived co-leader has mastered. -- David A. Heenan
Because others have let us down, it is now our duty to face the hard truths and do the right thing--no matter the personal cost. -- Glenn Beck
Crafted with care and with love, this beautifully constructed novel reveals hard truths and difficult secrets. Diana Davidson is a writer of great honesty and integrity, a writer to trust. -- Pauline Holdstock
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Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better. -- John P. Kotter
There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, "We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail." -- James C. Collins
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There is a big difference between hurt and harm. We all hurt sometimes in facing hard truths, but it makes us grow. It can be the source of huge growth. That is not harmful. Harm is when you damage someone. Facing reality is usually not a damaging experience, even though it can hurt. -- Henry Cloud
Expressing truth is hard work. -- Timothy Noah
Staring down hard truth takes guts. -- Joan Bauer
I deliver my Truth hot and hard. -- Stephen Colbert
I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie. -- Jacqueline Carey
Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does. -- Helen Hayes
Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. -- Carl Sagan
Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it. -- George R. R. Martin
Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time. -- Gerald R. Ford
Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul. -- Patricia Briggs
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. -- Francis Bacon
The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow. -- Edward Abbey
In truth, making films doesn't feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it. -- Christian Slater
Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by. -- Mark Frost
The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see. -- Hillary Clinton
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. -- Robert H. Schuller
But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know. -- Donna Tartt
It's always so hard when people assume someone cheated or broke up a marriage, when the truth may actually be much more complicated. -- Christian Borle
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. -- H. L. Mencken
Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal. -- Carl Sagan
It's so hard to write about countries like Haiti because there's truths behind the misperceptions people have. But there's so much more. There are multiple truths. -- Roxane Gay
Journalism has changed tremendously because of the democratization of information. Anybody can put something up on the Internet. It's harder and harder to find what the truth is. -- Robert Redford
How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life? -- Foster Friess
You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it. -- Julianne Moore
All I know, is that I feel extremely blessed to be on TV. It's a hard job, but real life is harder. Truth be told, playgrounds can be war zones. -- Atticus Shaffer
There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking. -- Bill Gates
The willingness to hear hard truth is vital not only for CEOs of big corporations but also for anyone who loves the truth. Sometimes the truth sounds like bad news, but it is just what we need. -- Bill Gates
It's a hard truth for Americans to face, that neither team in Washington is going to guard what we love the most. That is something we are going to have to face. Liberty is for the citizens to guard themselves. -- Llewellyn Rockwell
We must begin by acknowledging a hard truth. We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations, acting individually or in concert, will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified. -- Barack Obama
If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be real scientific data, not mere anecdote. As with the face on Mars and alien abductions, better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. -- Carl Sagan
The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed. -- Susan Sontag
Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family. -- Henri Nouwen
I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable. -- Edward Klein
Hatred is like fire. It burns the one who harnesses it. It's also extremely hard to see more helpful truths through its flames. -- Morgan Rhodes
Some truths are hard to swallow, so we share it within tales that most people will accept without being frightened by the truth hidden within. -- Larry Itejere
When the truths of love are planted firm, they won't be hard to find. And words of love I speak to you will echo in your mind. -- Stevie Wonder
It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance. -- Napoleon Bonaparte

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