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• Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

  Alvin Toffler

  Change, Men, Capacity

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• For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Grief, Reflection, Blood

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.16, Penguin UK

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• I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.

  Virginia Woolf

  Healing, Found, Ought

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• The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Memories

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.68, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.

  John H. Johnson

  Dream, Giving, Goal

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• Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

  Og Mandino

  Success, Character, Power

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• Every relationship I've been in, I've overwhelmed the girl. They just can't handle all the love.

  Justin Timberlake

  Love, Girl, Handle

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• I think women today are so overwhelmed and overtaxed.

  Sandra Lee

  Thinking, Today

  "Sandra Lee's Homemade Success". Interview with Nancy Jo Sales, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 13, 2011.

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• When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.

  Lana Del Rey

  Confused, Believe, Office

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Life, Bullying, Being Yourself

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• Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get away from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you.

  Marian Anderson

  Sometimes, Wonder, Realizing

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• Awe is the best drug in the world

  Jason Silva

  Drug, World, Having A Baby

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• Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  America, People, Deserve Better

  "Come Hell or High Water". Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2006.

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• When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you often feel like 'Oh my God, I'm so overwhelmed; I'm dealing with this huge thing on my own.' In fact, poetry's a nice reminder that, no, everybody goes through it. These are universal experiences.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Children, Nice, Facts

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• I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of books in most of them, and I know people are buying mine.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Book, Numbers, People

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• That happened when I was a freshman in high school. The guy reading it [the Bible] was dating my older sister. I thought he was the cutest thing that had ever happened in Nashville. He was nine years older than me and I thought, 'Mimi, I hate to do this to you, but I'm going to steal this guy away.' So I went to this Bible study thinking I was going to make this guy fall in love with me. I was fourteen. Hey, you know. But I was so overwhelmed by what they were talking about at this Bible study. I became a very serious, committed Christian.

  Amy Grant

  Christian, Falling In Love, Hate

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• The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Being Yourself, Lonely, Loneliness

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• Like it or not, people tend to buy paintings to match their drapes, couch or carpet. I know you want them to be so overwhelmed with your skills they can't resist hauling your art home. These three factors are what dictate most art sales.

  Jack White

  Art, Home, Skills

  Jack White (2014). “Artist Confidential: Secret Guidelines of Professionals”, p.53, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.

  Albrecht Durer

  Artist, Public Opinion, Command

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• Sadness is not always the worst feeling. Sometimes it's a really pleasurable thing to be overwhelmed with sadness.

  Matt Berninger

  Sadness, Feelings, Sometimes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Andrew Johnson wasn't too bad, but he was overwhelmed by a hostile Congress.

  Harry S. Truman

  Congress, Andrew, Johnson

  Harry S. Truman (2015). “Where the Buck Stops: The Personal and Private Writings of Harry S. Truman”, p.21, New Word City

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• My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the now was too terrible.

  Alice Hoffman

  Grandmother, Past, Terrible

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• He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he who ceases t grow becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the condition of standing still is the beginning of the end.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Giving Up, Fall, Discipline

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• Overwhelment is about you not being up to speed with what you told the Universe that you want. The Universe is yielding to you. You're just not ready to receive it right now.

  Esther Hicks

  Want, Speed, Ready

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• I sing the hymn of the conquered, who fell in the Battle of Life,-The hymn of the wounded, the beaten, who died overwhelmed in the strife....The hymn of the low and the humble, the weary, the broken in heart,Who strove and who failed, acting bravely a silent and desperate part.

  William Wetmore Story

  Heart, Humble, Hymns

  William Wetmore Story, “Io Victis”

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