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• Even fairly good students, when they have obtained the solution of the problem and written down neatly the argument, shut their books and look for something else. Doing so, they miss an important and instructive phase of the work. ... A good teacher should understand and impress on his students the view that no problem whatever is completely exhausted.

  George Polya

  Teacher, Book, Hard Work

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• With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Distance, Knowledge, Science

  Edwin Powell Hubble (1936). “The Realm of the Nebulæ”

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• I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow the activity of writing changes everything.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Soul, Cards

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.65, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done, that is the moment when the enemy is most exhausted, and when one step forward will give you the fruits of the struggle you have borne

  Winston Churchill

  Struggle, Giving, Enemy

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• Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Mean, Deliverance, Monte Cristo

  Alexandre Dumas (2016). “The Count Of Monte Cristo (Illustrated Edition of the Adventure Classic): Historical Thriller from the renowned French writer, known for The Three Musketeers, The Black Tulip, Twenty Years After, La Reine Margot and The Man in the Iron Mask”, p.157, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power...it is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits.

  Justus von Liebig

  Perfect, Chocolate, Pursuit

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• I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Energy, Batteries, Wonder

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “His Last Bow”, p.109, Arthur Conan Doyle

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• It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Years, Drunk

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “Lectures and biographical sketches”

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• I am certainly a romantic, but with a good scientific and rationalist half: thus, from this conflict I sometimes come out victorious, but exhausted.

  Henri

  Half, Sometimes, Conflict

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• Recycling is what we do when we're out of options to avoid, repair, or reuse the product first. Firstly: Reduce. Don't buy what we don't need. Repair: Fix stuff that still has life in it. Reuse: Share. Then, only when you've exhausted those options, recycle.

  Annie Leonard

  Needs, Reuse, Stuff

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• I had a slightly inferior endgame that probably should have been drawn, but Kortchnoi kept torturing me with little threats until finally, exhausted and exasperated, I made a losing mistake.

  Pal Benko

  Mistake, Should Have, Psychology

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• The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization. Neither a market economy nor even general abundance constitutes the crowning achievement of human life. If a nation's spiritual energies have been exhausted, it will not be saved from collapse by the most perfect government structure or by any industrial development. A tree with a rotten core cannot stand.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Government, Perfect

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• Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.

  Dorothea Lange

  Photographer, Possibility, Subjects

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• You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.

  Mother Teresa

  Love Is, Useless, Slavery

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.69, New World Library

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• A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.

  Watchman Nee

  Men, Effort, Drowning

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.131, CLC Publications

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• You're always in a rush, or else you're too exhausted to have a proper conversation. Soon enough, the long hours, the traveling, the broken sleep have all crept into your being and become part of you, so everyone can see it, in your posture, your gaze, the way you move and talk.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Moving, Sleep, Soon Enough

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• Accustom yourself to look first to the dreadful consequences of failure; then fix your eye on the glorious prize which is before you; and when your strength begins to fail, and your spirits are well nigh exhausted, let the animating view rekindle your resolution, and call forth in renewed vigour the fainting energies of your soul.

  William Wilberforce

  Eye, Views, Soul

  William Wilberforce (2013). “A Practical View”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you must search the darkest corners of your heart, the most remote recesses of your brain, - you must search them for the image, for the glamour, for the right expression. And you must do it sincerely, at any cost: you must do it so that at the end of your day's work you should feel exhausted, emptied of every sensation and every thought, with a blank mind and an aching heart, with the notion that there is nothing, - nothing left in you.

  Joseph Conrad

  Heart, Expression, Blank Mind

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad”, p.41, Cambridge University Press

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• …she smiles in an exhausted but warm sort of way, as though she is a brilliant sun in some other galaxy

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Way, Sun, Brilliant

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Military, War

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.26, Xist Publishing

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• Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can't contain Him. Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?

  Francis Chan

  Order, Christian Inspirational, Perfect

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.20, David C Cook

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• I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line—the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 that went forward 48 hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Mother, Running, Children

  Speech at Chautauqua, NY, 14 Aug. 1936, in Public Papers (1936) vol. 5, p. 289

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• As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.

  Andrew Delbanco

  Happiness, Happy, People

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• I like this feeling of weariness after training, when I'm walking home exhausted, dragging my feet. I like this a lot.

  Fedor Emelianenko

  Home, Feet, Feelings

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• When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.

  Gary Snyder

  Yoga, Buddhism, Positivity

  Gary Snyder (1969). “Earth House Hold”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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