In England there was no slavery, so there was no particular reason for most people to face the ugly truth.

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What's more, in the back half of the season, Rhimes says Heigl asked her to write Izzie light so she could shoot her movie, The Ugly Truth.

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"We have to come to terms with the ugly truth that skin color, age and economics played a significant role in who survived and who did not, " he said.

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Turns out, the idea that ignorance is bliss borrows from the idea that happy people might just be uninterested in looking into the ugly truth of things that occasionally lies under the surface.

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We believe that by educating the public by relating our personal experiences, we can reveal the hard, ugly truth about war.

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He showed me the ugly and glorious truth.

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There's an ugly truth about the inevitability of moral compromise, embodied by the shifty Renault.

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This might look ugly for some, but the truth, as the saying goes, shall set you free.

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