A twitter search for "at the end of the day" (a phrase favored by self-styled 'realists') yields an astounding sample of reality distortions
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it's a phrase that always comes before an oversimplified answer to a complex situation
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Similarly, when working at an engineering firm I learned to savour whatever followed the words "the reality is..."
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Or as Dennett points out, whatever follows "Surely, ..." is usually not at all a sure thing.
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Closely related to its less florid cousin "the reality is": eugenewei.com/blog/2014/5/1/
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