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• Thinking carries a moral imperative. The searcher for truth must be ready to obey truth without reservation or it will elude him.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Thinking, Moral, Reservations

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• The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her; despite the fact that all the world can see it's right there, it remains just beyond her reach. It cannot be possessed because, paradoxically, it is already part of her.

  Gina Barreca

  Cat, Humor, Facts

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• When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.

  Richard Rohr

  Exercise, Elude Us, Response

  "Contemplation: Finding Ourselves, Finding God" by Fr. Richard Rohr, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.

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• Time -- when pursued like a bandit -- will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping ou the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Country, Hair, Doors

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• House-training, I must tell you, is a formality that can elude young dachshunds for some time; this is particularly true in climates that affront their sensibilities with outrageous meteorological insults. Rain, for example, or a startling gust of wind.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Rain, Wind, House

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• Wisdom eludes me yet, but foolishness I captured long ago and to this day it is my constant companion, though many people consider me wise.

  Kevin Hearne

  Wise, Long Ago, People

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.776, Del Rey

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• At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection.

  Anais Nin

  Confused, World, Firsts

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• Sometimes a scene can elude you, and then, you also learn that the small moments are really what you're after. A big broad moment that gets the crew laughing, usually isn't going to translate to an audience.

  Nicholas Stoller

  Elude You, Laughing, Small Moments

  Source: collider.com

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• Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.

  Albert Camus

  Simple, Men, Historical

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.250, Vintage

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• The proper timing of an attacking plan is a difficult matter which places great strain on a player's nerves. Mastery of this art is required for success in the international arena, but perfect mastery eludes even the very best chessplayers!

  Leonid Shamkovich

  Art, Player, Perfect

  Leonid Shamkovich, Eric Schiller (1987). “Saving lost positions”, B. T. Batsford Limited

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• I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy, a future of racial equality, gender equality, economic equality will elude us.

  Angela Davis

  Believe, Elude Us, Long

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• You say you are not happy in the Mission. That, in itself, is not a sign that God does not want you there. Perfect contentment is never to be found, in whatever place and condition one may be. This life is full of annoyances and troubles both of mind and of body; it is a state of continual agitation, which snatches peace of mind from those who think they possess it and eludes those who seek it. Did Our Lord lead an easy life?

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Thinking, Perfect

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

  George Santayana

  Art, Men, Discipline

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.327, 谷月社

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• Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.

  Mason Cooley

  Elude Us, Literature, Eternity

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• Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both eludes the murderers mind.

  Jean Genet

  Mind, Murder, Killing

  Jean Genet, Edmund White (1993). “The selected writings of Jean Genet”, Ecco Pr

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• Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one another from childhood and raise them together.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Order, People, Childhood

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.17, Vintage

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• If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Courage, Mistake, Elude Us

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “Practicing History: Selected Essays”, p.207, Random House

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• Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager for it we may be, the experience may still elude us. Contrarily, the experience may capture us at times when we are definitely not seeking it, when it is inconvenient and undesirable.

  M. Scott Peck

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Elude Us

  M. Scott Peck (2012). “The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth”, p.77, Random House

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• Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.

  Victor Hugo

  Clouds, Tables, Lovers

  "Les Misérables". Book by Victor Hugo, Book III, 1862.

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• Never let hope elude you. That is life's biggest fumble.

  Robert Zuppke

  Elude You

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• The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.

  Walter Lippmann

  Class, Public Opinion, Common

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.169, Courier Corporation

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• Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Events, Historian

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• Success is something you should never take into consideration: if you follow it it'll elude you. It's important to really love your work as a writer, to read loads to the point where you can recognise blindfolded, hearing them read, the writers of yesterday and today. It's important to write every day, for hours. To have faith in your imagination and let it wander.

  Dacia Maraini

  Love You, Writing, Yesterday And Today

  "A ‘special’ writer. Dacia Maraini in interview". Interview with Vincenza Fanizza, www.threemonkeysonline.com.

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• The power of psychedelics... is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise elude us for a lifetime.

  Sam Harris

  Elude Us, Understanding, Depth

  Sam Harris (2014). “Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• I do also think it eludes genre a bit - not in any groundbreaking way but you can't quite call it a comedy and you can't quite call it a romantic anything. It's not quite a drama either really. But it has elements of all those things.

  Colin Firth

  Drama, Thinking, Elements

  "Then She Found Me - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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