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  • Truism that it is, it presents itself with particular force at this stage.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • This is evident on “Half Truism” and the delicatel-plucked electric guitar that opens “Fix You,” which is not a cover of Coldplay and ramps up into a near power ballad.

    Buzzine » CD Spins: Costello, R.E.M. and Muse 2008

  • Truism or not, it is salutary that Chomsky should remind us that variability is an inevitable consequence of sexual reproduction, and that what he terms a universal grammar can be no exception, whatever its genetic basis.

    Universal Grammar Chomsky, Noam 1991

  • Truism as it is, my dear Rouge Pot, I am bound to beg you never to forget that _everybody can't have everything_ in this world, and that

    The Peace Egg and Other tales Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

  • Nowlan's Truism: An "acceptable level of unemployment" means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.

    The Big Apple 2010

  • Nowlan's Truism: An "acceptable level of unemployment" means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.

    The Big Apple 2010

  • Newlan's Truism An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable stilt has a job. ivman's blague

    The Big Apple 2010

  • Truism of PC gaming number one: singleplayer games get the headlines.

    Computer And Video Games 2009

  • Truism number two of PC Gaming: Blizzard games sell well in America, Europe and Asia.

    Computer And Video Games 2009

  • Truism 3: Humans are moral because that is the nature of the species - moral is what humans do

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2009

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