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Most of us may learn to push the barrier farther off, and to live in perfect comfort on much higher levels of power.
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The busiest man needs no more hours of rest than the idler.
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The fatigue gets worse up to a certain critical point, when gradually or suddenly it passes away, and we are fresher than before.
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We have evidently tapped a level of new energy, masked until then by the fatigue-obstacle usually obeyed.
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We live subject to arrest by degrees of fatigue which we have come only from habit to obey.
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The American over-tension and jerkiness and breathlessness and intensity and agony of expression are primarily social, and only secondarily physiological, phenomena.
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Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.