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• Wrath jammed a finger in V’s face. “Don’t follow me. We clear? You don’t follow me.” “You stupid fool,” V said with total exhaustion. “You’re the king. We all must follow you.

  J.R. Ward

  Kings, Stupid, Wrath

  J.R. Ward (2009). “Lover Avenged: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.55, Penguin

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• Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all.

  Libba Bray

  Stupid, Cry, Wanted

  Libba Bray (2012). “The Diviners: Number 1 in series”, p.317, Hachette UK

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• I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail, poisoned in the bushes,
  blown out on the trail; hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn,
  "Come in," she said, "I'll give ya shelter from the storm."

  Bob Dylan

  Marriage, Giving, Storm

  Song: Shelter From The Storm

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• We Americans are living a lifestyle of exhaustion. We don't have time for ourselves, much less for each other and our children.

  James Dobson

  Gratitude, Children, Lifestyle

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• The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated.

  Sun Tzu

  Home, Army, Loss

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.11, Xist Publishing

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• For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.

  Ernie Pyle

  Peace, War, Black

  ERNIE PYLE (1944). “BRAVE MEN”

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• Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed the limp, languid weight of her arms, her veins bulging slightly with the pressure of her extreme weariness ... one day in January she drew a razor blade lightly across the inside of her arm, near the elbow, to see what would happen.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Winter, Water, One Day

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• Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a result of your efforts. Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation. Waste materials, formerly cast aside, are now being utilized.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Science, Civilization, Effort

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• Nervous exhaustion from mental overwork is most often due to neglect of this rule and the brain worker should limit his regular day's work to a reasonable number of hours per day and those when the brain is at its best.

  Maurice Bigelow

  Numbers, Brain, Limits

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• Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Addiction, Growth, Cost

  Kenneth E. Boulding (1985). “Collected Papers: Toward the Twenty-First Century : Political Economy, Social Systems, and World Peace”, University Press of Colorado

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• If the society toward which we are developing is not to be a nightmare of exhaustion, we must use the interlude of the present era to develop a new technology which is based on a circular flow of materials such that the only sources of man's provisions will be his own waste products.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Technology, Men, Use

  "Economics As a Science". Book by Kenneth E. Boulding, 1970.

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• I was unable to walk for a whole week after that, so much did the race take out of me. But it was the most pleasant exhaustion I have ever known.

  Emil Zatopek

  Running, Race, Marathon

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• We've got to be long distance runners on the spiritual path. We want to run as fast as we can, but at the same time realize that if God isn't at the end of that 100 yards, we don't fall flat of exhaustion. We've got to have whatever rhythm it takes to be able to go on for incarnations until we find that state of perfection we've been seeking.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Happiness, Running, Spiritual

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• We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win. The North Vietnamese used their armed forces the way a bull-fighter uses his cape to keep us lunging in areas of marginal political importance.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Military, War, Army

  "The Vietnam Negotiations". Foreign Affairs, Vol. 48, No. 2, p. 214, January 1969.

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• Heavenly rest will be so refreshing that we will never feel that exhaustion of mind and body we so frequently experience now. I'm really looking forward to that.

  Billy Graham

  Heaven, Mind, Body

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.

  Fred Astaire

  Trying, Experience, May

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• I am struggling, though. It’s f-cking hard. So little sleep. It’s 23 hours and 59 minutes of exhaustion. They do one little thing in that last minute that is just so compelling and fascinating that it makes the other 23 hours and 59 minutes worthwhile.

  Liev Schreiber

  Struggle, Sleep, Littles

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• The writings are often written in a kind of exhaustion or delirium, I try very hard not to censor myself, to be as honest and vulnerable as possible, as one would in a diary. As a child I used to write my diaries backwards in cursive. No one else could understand them. I think it trained me to be bold and admit feelings that I might feel otherwise scared to write down.

  Jill Magid

  Children, Writing, Thinking

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I was never going to get any sleep. I was going to have Alice in Wonderland conversation after Alice in Wonderland conversation until I died of exhaustion. Here, in the restful, idyllic Victorian era.

  Connie Willis

  Sleep, Idyllic, Wonderland

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.206, Bantam

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• Position yourself to succeed by doing the other things in your life that rejuvenate you. You can create little islands of time away from your novel that will help preserve your balance. Exhaustion will affect both your writing’s quality and your productivity.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Writing, Islands, Balance

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• Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading dead zone of exhaustion, inertia, and brilliant decay.

  Arthur Kroker

  Space, Black, Hollywood

  Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker, David Cook (1989). “Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene”

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• The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.

  James Hilton

  Passion

  James Hilton (2016). “LOST HORIZON - The Legend of Shangri-La: Adventure Classic”, p.131, e-artnow

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• Although mechanical energy is indestructible, there is a universal tendency to its dissipation, which produces throughout the system a gradual augmentation and diffusion of heat, cessation of motion and exhaustion of the potential energy of the material Universe

  Lord Kelvin

  Energy, Heat, Tendencies

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• Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.

  N.D. Wilson

  Sacrifice, Giving, Glory

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• I simply adore the exhaustion that comes with training hard.

  Deena Kastor

  Training, Adore, Hard

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