#elude

I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#complete #different #east #found #guess

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony. ↗

— Gyorgy Legeti

#bach #began #compose #fifteen #had

I am deluded enough to think I can bring something to the table. ↗

— Huey Lewis

#bring #deluded #enough #i #i am

Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government. ↗

— Gerald F. Lieberman

#delude #elections #government #held #into

Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war. ↗

— John McCain

#deluded #doubt #most #necessity #only

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade. ↗

— Bette Midler

#because #big #conformity #cruelty #group

Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they know something the market doesn't. ↗

— Merton Miller

#delude #information #into #just #know

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#destruction #fear #first #gods #hatred

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp? ↗

— William Osler

#eludes #ever #fickle #grasp #his

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them. ↗

— Ovid

#like #long #many #offered #them