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• Greatness is not this, wonderful, esoteric, elusive, god-like feature that only the special among us will ever taste. You know? It's something that truly exists, in, all of us. It's very simple, this is what I believe, and, I'm willing to die for it. Period. It's that simple.

  Will Smith

  Believe, Simple, Greatness

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• Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

  Camille Paglia

  Sensitivity, Masculinity, Manhood

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.82, Vintage

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• That time of day when the sun hasn’t come up yet, but you can already feel it coming. It’s an elusive warmth, like a subtle promise whispered in your ear and you can go on with your day knowing you’ve been given another chance to get it right.

  Cassia Leo

  Knowing, Promise, Sun

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• If peace seems elusive in your life today, commit yourself to God, commit your concerns to Him in prayer, and then rest peacefully as you trust in Him.

  David Jeremiah

  Life, Prayer, Today

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• Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

  Jan Tschichold

  Art, Perfect, Design

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• Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

  Albert Camus

  Two, Long, Goal

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

  Mick Jagger

  Gone, Fleeting, Fluttering

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• Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  "Humor, Play, & Laughter : Stress-proofing Life with Your Kids" by Joseph A. Michelli, (p. 88), 1998.

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• I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.

  Patrick Warburton

  Friends, Family Guy, Stuff

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• Peace, so elusive in the past many decades, now finally prevails all over the country.

  Hun Sen

  Country, Peace, Past

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• Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Sensitivity, Masculinity

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.82, Vintage

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• Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.

  Earl Nightingale

  Night, Ideas, Paper

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• Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving, hesitations. Books leave certain sounds, a certain pacing; mostly they leave the elusive, which is all the story. They leave much more than the words.

  Dionne Brand

  Moving, Book, Eye

  Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.227, Vintage Canada

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• Knowledge is not enough to get desired results. You must have the more elusive ability to teach and to motivate. This defines a leader; if you can't teach and you can't motivate, you can't lead.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Nba, Leader

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• I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute, melted metal will begin to drip and everything will turn to nothing. Quick: get cold water, logic. I am pouring it over myself by the bucketload but the logic sizzles on the hot bearings and dissipates elusive white steam into the air.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  White, Air, Water

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (2007). “We”, p.119, Modern Library

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• If happiness were easy, everybody would feel it all the time, and it wouldn't seem like such an elusive prize.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Easy, Feels, Prize

  Bethenny Frankel, Eve Adamson (2011). “A Place of Yes: 10 Rules for Getting Everything You Want Out of Life”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Love, Life, Heart

  Eknath Easwaran (1996). “Original Goodness: Elknath Easwaran on the Beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount”, p.76, Nilgiri Press

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• An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn't been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding.

  Alberto Salazar

  Fun, Athlete, Journey

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• Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.

  Beverley Jones

  Love, Running, Dog

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• Knowing that one dies... has brought with it a peace that before was elusive to say the least... it is useless, if at times pleasurable, to fantasise about the future. It is not here and it is not known. In the same way the past is just that. Past. Gone. To be relinquished. 'What's done cannot be undone.' Now is what it's about... Life is still to be lived, suffered, enjoyed, battled over.

  Ruth Cracknell

  Art, Past, Knowing

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• All your life you compare and contrast, explore and search. But knowing yourself well is, well, elusive.

  Stedman Graham

  Knowing, Know Yourself, Compare

  Stedman Graham, Stewart Emery, Russ Hall (2012). “Identity: Your Passport to Success”, p.36, FT Press

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• My eyes close and uncomprehendingly see the dream in the infinite space that stretches away, elusive, before me.

  Paul Gauguin

  Dream, Eye, Space

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• The rainbow is elusive, and its colors but the illumination of tears.

  Alice Dunbar Nelson

  Illumination, Color, Sky

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• Personal happiness seems mysteriously and frustratingly elusive. Even when people achieve it, they can't hold onto it. That is the greatest clue, the biggest hint, the surest sign that something's amiss.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  People, Hints, Clue

  "A Revolution Is What's Called For Here" by Neale Donald Walsch, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Let the wise one control his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, often elusive, and they rush about frantically: a mind well controlled achieves peace and happiness.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Buddhist, Mind

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