And you know, there's, some of those were based in a grain of truth.

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He said he believes there might be a grain of truth to Dorner's allegations of a cover-up.

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He does, however, see a grain of truth in the notion that Asian mothers, more comfortable than Westerners with the idea of meritocracy, drive their children hard.

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There's a grain of truth in both of those claims.

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Both explanations have a grain of truth.

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