11.   And the basic truth is, we could live without them.

12.   As the years whoosh by in this wind tunnel we call life, I have discovered three basic truths.

13.   All that really matters is one basic truth.

14.   All the hours of preparation leading to the first game of a football season can obscure some basic truths.

15.   But he is not a choreographer who knows how to distill the essence of character and telegraph a basic truth.

16.   Complicated messages can obscure basic truths.

17.   Even though both sides have hardened lately, those basic truths have not changed and I believe the process is still alive.

18.   It elides a basic truth, that Bush has become a methodical, disciplined candidate and officeholder.

19.   It is simply that we all relate to the same God and we all tell the same basic truth.

20.   President George Bush applied this basic truth to our swift, overpowering five weeks of whirlwind effort in Desert Storm.