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Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

Eric Hoffer

Being Yourself, Being Single, Men

Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.

John Vanbrugh

Thinking, World

'The Relapse' (1696) act 2, sc. 1

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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.

William Cowper

Thinking, Bears, Rich

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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

Andre Gide

Sadness, Self Pity, Misery

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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Thomas Paine

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

The American Crisis, 12 Sept. 1777

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To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Food, Wine, Cooking

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What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

Henri Matisse

Dream, Depressing, Art

Notes d'un peintre (Notes of a Painter, 1908) in Dominique Fourcade crits et propos sur l'art (1972) p. 30

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Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.

Laura Hillenbrand

Hydrogen Bomb, Bombs, Atomic Bomb

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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Thomas Carlyle

Music, March, Sensible

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Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

Antonin Artaud

Needs, Culture, Bones

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A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

James Monroe

Inspiring, Teaching, Men

James Monroe, Daniel Preston, Marlena C. DeLong (2003). “The Papers of James Monroe: A documentary history of the presidential tours of James Monroe, 1817, 1818, 1819”, Greenwood Pub Group

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Number two, we're going to play with a lot of effort. Our guys are going to be in such good shape that fatigue is not going to be a problem. We're going to play with full effort from snap to whistle on every play the entire game.

Steve Spurrier

Sports, Games, Play

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... continual hard labor deadens the energies of the soul, and benumbs the faculties of the mind; the ideas become confined, the mind barren, and, like the scorching sands of Arabia, produces nothing; or, like the uncultivated soil, brings forth thorns and thistles. Again, continual hard labor irritates our tempers and sours our dispositions; the whole system become worn out with toil and fatigue; nature herself becomes almost exhausted, and we care but little whether we live or die.

Maria W. Stewart

Ideas, Soul, Mind

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There's the fatigue that you have to forget about, because the red curtain still has to rise.

Mireille Mathieu

Red, Forget, Curtains

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Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.

Dag Hammarskjold

Pain, Work, Loneliness

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Most of the albums that have taken long have been related to illness and fatigue or producer problems.

David Coverdale

Taken, Long, Albums

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Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.

Patrick MacGill

Party, Provision, Sympathetic

MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.12, Read Books Ltd

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Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.

Leonora Carrington

Form, Sentimentality

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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Death, Lying, Father

Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Baxter (1973). “RLS: Stevenson's Letters to Charles Baxter”

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I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.

Maria Mitchell

Hard Work, Mean, Night

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RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.

Ambrose Bierce

Kindness, Recreation, Particular

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.194, University of Georgia Press

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What you never want to do is have a story that doesn't track emotionally, because then you're going joke to joke and you're going to fatigue the audience. The only thing that's going to string them to the next joke is how successful the previous joke is.

Paul Feig

Successful, Track, Stories

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Some folks get nauseous, have body cramping -- they will get lightheaded and get a sense of fatigue.

William Jackson

Body, Folks

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But I still serve pretty big and that's one of my biggest weapons, so if my shoulder holds up and I can count on it, I can win a few matches and then you never know how the other guys are going to react to the fatigue and the length of the matches.

Guy Forget

Sports, Winning, Guy

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Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks.

Lorne Michaels

People, Risk, Nerves

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