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• When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of your distress to act. And even though you have wise counsellors, none will be able to lay good plans for the future. Thus, while we have heard of blundering swiftness in war, we have not yet seen a clever operation that was prolonged.

  Sun Tzu

  Wise, Clever, War

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• An infinite number of real parts of time, passing in succession, and exhausted one after another, appears so evident a contradiction, that no man, one should think, whose judgement is not corrupted, instead of being improved, by the sciences, would ever be able to admit of it.

  David Hume

  Real, Men, Thinking

  David Hume (2016). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book”, p.123, VM eBooks

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• Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well, and that includes holidays to recharge. I always try to give myself big chunks of time to think about what the next project is going to be.

  Wayne McGregor

  Holiday, Thinking, Giving

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• I think we are all exhausted by, and sick of, Donald Trump.

  Gene Weingarten

  Thinking, Sick, Trump

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• When the sun is shining, make hay, because it would be sunset on my career at some point, and when it is, I want to be exhausted.

  Bryan Cranston

  Sunset, Careers, Shining

  "Bryan Cranston talks about ex who threatened to kill him". Associated Press interview, www.cbsnews.com. October 27, 2016.

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• Making [Pineapple Express] was a blast. I'd kind of gotten to the point professionally where I was pretty emotionally exhausted from making dramatic films.

  Seth Rogen

  Pineapples, Kind, Film

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• I don't like any sport where you're already exhausted when you're done putting on the equipment.

  Rob Lowe

  Sports, Done, Equipment

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm a Nietzschean about human nature. The bulk of humanity is exhausted and superfluous, miscreant, confused, latently criminal, opportunistic. I rely on that. That's leverage, man.

  Cody Wilson

  Confused, Men, Humanity

  Source: motherboard.vice.com

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• During those days when you're exhausted and during those days when you're frustrated, during those days when you're being attacked by your own people for doing what you think is right, remember you're part of a progression that goes back a long time of ordinary people who are doing their best to make it a better world.

  Cleve Jones

  Thinking, Remember You, Remembers You

  Source: www.bilerico.com

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• Often Americans have heard Donald Trump be very hard on China. But that's not how it's heard over there. In China, his message is being interpreted as the sound of an exhausted America, an America that is seeking to withdraw from its commitments to NATO, to holding up, for instance, human rights around the world.

  Evan Osnos

  Commitment, Rights, America

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I organized tax resistance in 1965, with a friend. I kept at it for about ten years. I don't see it as a principle, it's a tactic. And I felt I had exhausted its potential as a tactic right about then, so I stopped.

  Noam Chomsky

  Years, Principles, Tactics

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Blackness is an ocean, a universe, a possibility that can never be exhausted. And so we have to constantly reaffirm the necessity of excavation, of archiving and curating, but also exploring, and understanding afresh and learning for the first time what it is that we need to know, and what the limits and boundaries are, and what the themes and preoccupations should be, and what the redemptive character of that erudition is. I find myself in the exciting position of doing all that, and at the same time having the obligation to explain to white people what the deal is.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Ocean, Character, White

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Confronting the intolerable should be challenging and upsetting. Who could read the testimonies of Primo Levi and not feel intellectually and emotionally exhausted? Or Martin Luther King Jr.'s words, not to mention those of Malcolm X? It is the conditions that produce violence that should upset us ethically and prompt us to act responsibly, rather than to capitulate to a privatized emotional response that substitutes a therapeutic language for a political and worldly one.

  Henry Giroux

  Emotional, Political, Upset

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I think that we're at an alarming moment in American political development and maybe in world political development, because the United States is so influential. If the trends of the last thirty or forty years are not halted and reversed - and those trends include increasingly inequality, a crumbling public life, a disintegrating public infrastructure, an exhausted ecology, and a huge war arsenal, and more and more war making - then I'm rather gloomy about the prospects for the American future and the harm that the United States could do to the world.

  Frances Fox Piven

  War, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There were obvious budgetary and time constraint differences. With Jamie Marks is Dead, we were operating on a pretty small finance level. So it was definitely run-and-gun, 16-hour days, every day. I would come back, and I was so exhausted I would fall asleep in my clothes. Obviously, with The Giver we had a little bit more time to take the full three months. So that was different, but in both there was still a creative environment, and by that I mean that it was still collaborative, performance was still valued, and it wasn't lost in the money.

  Cameron Monaghan

  Fall, Mean, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The thing is, when you're kind of creatively self-employed, your brain just kind of chooses the path of least resistance, so if you really exhausted and you've had a long day, then that's typically when you might respond to emails or if you're on a plane and have nothing else to do, then you might listen to music and write these satirical pieces trying to explain the charts with music theory.

  Owen Pallett

  Writing, Long, Brain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you can, start your own business while you're working another job so that your bills get paid. Choose something that you love, so that when you're exhausted when you come home from work, you're actually looking forward to your 3 hours every night that you can apply to your business, either after your kids go to sleep or while they're watching TV or while they're doing their homework, however you can budget your time. Instead of a chore, choose something you love so you absolutely look forward to it.

  Rachel Roy

  Kids, Home, Sleep

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Flower, Night, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West”, p.153, Vintage

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• I, for one, am exhausted. I’ve been threatened, beaten, bitten and killed, and that was just in the last hour. (Jericho)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Lasts, Hours, Jericho

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Dream Warrior”, p.96, Hachette UK

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• Well, when Eleanor Roosevelt's mother dies, she goes to live with her Grandmother Hall. And her Grandmother Hall is in mourning. She's in widow's weeds. She's in her 50s, but appears very old. And she's exhausted from raising rather out-of-control children. Her favorite daughter, Anna, has died (Eleanor's mother), and she has living at home two other sons, Vallie and Eddie. And they are incredible sportsmen, incredible drinkers, out-of-control alcoholics.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Daughter, Mother, Weed

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's the false security of feeling a great force of love from your audience one day and then the next morning you wake up and you're exhausted, and that love is something you have to reach for the next day.

  Lisa Gerrard

  Morning, Love Is, Next Day

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think that I burnt myself out a little bit with my dancing because I did so much of it. I was exhausted so thought that I would try a different kind of performance and expression and acting seemed like a close fit; it was similar in some ways to dancing. My mum showed me some really good films and so I became interested in films and acting.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Thinking, Expression, Dancing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• With the second record (2012's Anxiety), I was quite jaded, and exhausted, and tired. With this third record, I feel that I've come full circle. I had gotten to the absolute pinnacle of how bad someone could feel.

  Ladyhawke

  Tired, Circles, Anxiety

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

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• When I walk off the field exhausted, drenched in sweat, knowing I pushed myself to the physical, mental, and emotional limits, there is no better feeling.

  Joanna Lohman

  Emotional, Knowing, Sweat

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• It's hard: you get older, you have a career, the normal frustrations that come with what you do when you wear your heart on your sleeve and you try really heard. I was exhausted, and I couldn't quite see the magic of creating at that time. That's all. I couldn't get into it, and Andy [Kim] slowly resuscitated me, and that's how I made Darlings.

  Kevin Drew

  Heart, Frustration, Careers

  "'Songs I Can Sing Ya': An Interview with Andy Kim and Kevin Drew". Interview With Evan Sawdey, www.popmatters.com. February 24, 2015.

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