#elude

I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace. ↗

— Thurston Moore

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The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. ↗

— Jane Wagner

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But what you could perhaps do with in these days is a word of most sincere sympathy. Your movement is carried internally by so strong a truth and necessity that victory in one form or another cannot elude you for long. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

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We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

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There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#isaac-asimov #prelude-to-foundation #science #science-fiction #scientists

It was unfair that people who longed for love the most, searched the hardest for it, found it so elusive. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#hard #long #love #love

The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

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At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding. ↗

— Norman Maclean

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But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts. ↗

— Richard Owen

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To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

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