1.   And once again, the extraordinarily simple underlying truths about this problem have been obscured by political bombast.

2.   Certainly it misses the simple truth of patience.

3.   Even so, it took me till I got to my own house to realise the very simple truth.

4.   No-one wanted to believe the simple truth.

5.   The simple truth is companies with large central data processing facilities will still need these unpleasant, draughty, noisy rooms.

6.   The simple truths according to Marx and Lenin are now crowded by doubts.

7.   At some point you have to face the simple truth that we failed.

8.   And that has been a simple truth for decades, if not centuries.

9.   At the bottom of the struggle is a simple truth.

10.   Both writers also share a gift for poetic plainspeak, their words illuminated by compassion and simple truths.