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• The sad truth is that you can have peace processes all you like, but if one side is committed to war, then it's war.

  John Podhoretz

  War, Sides, Truth Is

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• it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

  Daniel Handler

  Loss, Sometimes, Loved Ones

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• The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don't realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry is perfectly justified.

  Wayne Gerard Trotman

  Realizing, Justified, Convince

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• [M]ore wars have been waged, more people killed, and more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than by any other institutional force in human history. The sad truth continues in our present day.

  Charles Kimball

  War, Names, People

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• The sad truth is that societies that demand whistleblowers be martyrs often find themselves without either, and always when it matters the most.

  Edward Snowden

  Demand, Whistleblowers, Matter

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 23, 2015.

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• The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

  Gloria Estefan

  Fate, Opportunity, Years

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• To sense when a teenager needs understanding and when misunderstanding is a difficult and delicate task. The sad truth is that no matter how wise we are, we cannot be right for any length of time in our teenagers' eyes.

  Haim Ginott

  Wise, Teenager, Eye

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• The sad truth is that among today's evangelicals it is not loving and esteeming God but self-love and self-esteem that are presented as the pressing need!

  Dave Hunt

  Self Esteem, Self Love, Needs

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• A sad truth of human nature is that it is hard to care for people when they are abstractions, hard to care when it is not you or somebody close to you. Unless the world community can stop finding ways to dither in the face of this monstrous threat to humanity those words Never Again will persist in being one of the most abused phrases in the English language and one of the greatest lies of our time.

  Paul Rusesabagina

  Lying, People, Community

  Paul Rusesabagina, Tom Zoellner (2006). “An Ordinary Man: An Autobiography”, p.206, Penguin

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• When we think about millions of hungry children, we don't think about America. We relate the problem to other nations, like Ethiopia, India or Somalia. The sad truth is that one is five American kids is at risk due to poor nutrition.

  Kristin Davis

  Children, Kids, Thinking

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• You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger? Only when free utterance is suppressed is it needed, and when it is needed it is most vital to justice.

  William Allen White

  Truth, Stress, Justice

  William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”

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• I think that a big part of the energy that was going into fighting AIDS was reduced when we saw that more of the new infections were among our black and brown young people. That's a sad truth to have to claim, but I believe it's true.

  Cleve Jones

  Believe, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The sad truth about humanity...is that people believe what they're told. Maybe not the first time, but by the hundredth time, the craziest of ideas just becomes a given.

  Neal Shusterman

  Believe, Ideas, People

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• My fear represented the failure of the human system. It is a sad truth of our creation: Something is amiss in our design, there are loose ends of our psychology that are simply not wrapped up. My fears were the dirty secrets of evolution. They were not provided for, and I was forced to construct elaborate temples to house them.

  Steve Martin

  Dirty, House, Design

  Steve Martin (2004). “The pleasure of my company”

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• In the time since the Baudelaire parents' death, most of the Baudelaire orphans' friends had fallen by the wayside, an expression wich here means "they stopped calling, writing, and stopping by to see any of the Baudelaires, making them lonely". You and I, of course, would never do this to any of our grieving acquaintances, but it is a sad truth that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

  Daniel Handler

  Lonely, Writing, Mean

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• One of the most common questions writers are asked is "Where do you get your ideas?" But the sad truth is, we don't know. Ideas can come at any time and from any direction: in the shower, waiting for an elevator, or while bouncing across Wikipedia pages.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Ideas, Waiting, Wikipedia

  Scott Westerfeld (2009). “Bogus to Bubbly: An Insider's Guide to the World of Uglies”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?

  Jonathan Franzen

  Ordinary, Extraordinary, Corrections

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.197, Macmillan

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• Man is capable of greatness, love, nobility, compassion. Yet never forget that his capacity for evil is infinite. It is a sad truth, boy, that if you sit now and think of the worst tortures that could ever be inflicted on another human being, they will already have been practiced somewhere. If there is one sound that follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.

  David Gemmell

  Boys, Greatness, Men

  David Gemmell (2011). “Bloodstone”, p.150, Del Rey

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• Of course the sad truth is that if we are not present to the moment, our true love could come and go and we wouldn't even notice.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Moments, Truth Is, Comes And Goes

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• The sad truth is as difficult as the first mile can be for entrepreneurs, it is doubly tough inside most large companies as innovators can face some significant headwinds.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Entrepreneur, Firsts, Faces

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Ladders, Higher, Knows

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• You don't just turn off your feelings for someone, and that's a very hard, sad truth for people. When you're drawn to someone, even if they're not good for you, you feel connected. In a lot of ways.

  Amy B. Harris

  People, Feelings, Way

  "'Carrie Diaries' Boss Answers Finale's Biggest Questions and Talks Season 2". Interview with Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 08, 2013.

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• The sad truth is that most Christians spend their entire lives trying to score points with Someone who is not keeping score.

  Wayne Jacobsen

  Christian, Trying, Truth Is

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• In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Wish, Half, Neighbor

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon, F. J. Sypher (1999). “Tales and sketches”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• The other sad truth about golf spectatorship is that for today's pros it all comes down to the putting, and that the difference between a putt that drops and one that rims the cup, though teleologically enormous, is intellectually negligeable.

  John Updike

  Golf, Differences, Today

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