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• The resurrection makes Christianity the most irritating religion on the face of the earth.

  Timothy Keller

  Earth, Faces, Resurrection

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• If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Fear, People, Doe

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• The lumbermen...regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools....And as for sustained yield, no such idea had ever entered their heads. The few friends the forest had were spoken of, when they were spoken of at all, as impractical theorists, fanatics, or "denudatics," more or less touched in the head. What talk there was about forest protection was no more to the average American that the buzzing of a mosquito, and just about as irritating.

  Gifford Pinchot

  Ideas, Yield, Average

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• In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.

  O. Henry

  New York, Greatness, Gentleman

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.660, Delphi Classics

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• One of the most fruitless, irritating wastes in the world is arguing-the contentious, endless kind of arguing that is akin to quarreling, and causes feuding in families and among friends, and leaves resentful feeling in homes, in hearts, in businesses and professions, and in all kinds of gatherings in public and private places, and in all relationships of life-and with so little that it ever seems to settle!

  Richard L. Evans

  Home, Heart, Feelings

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• Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.

  Ajahn Chah

  Teacher

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• Did Mad freakin' Max just call me irritating?

  Joe Pesci

  Mad, Max, Irritated

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• It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.

  Tom Holt

  Beautiful, Girl, Workout

  "Expecting Someone Taller". Book by Tom Holt, 1987.

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• A Morning Prayer The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man; help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces, let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day. Bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Morning, Business, Laughter

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley (1925). “The works of Robert Louis Stevenson”

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• It used to be irritating just because someone can meet you and before they would get a chance to get to know you, they’ll go find someone else’s story about who I am. For me personally, I just always think it’s more interesting to get to know the person myself.

  Ricky Williams

  Thinking, Who I Am, Interesting

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• A good example is more irritating than a bad one.

  John McAfee

  Example, Good Examples

  John McAfee's presentation in Munich, January 1991.

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• Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Marriage, Self, Woven

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.57, Open Road Media

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• I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument.

  John Mortimer

  Art, Father, Luck

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• To any man who has slaved to acquire skill in his art, it is most irritating to have his ability referred to as a “gift.”

  Andrew Loomis

  Art, Men, Skills

  Andrew Loomis (1943). “Figure drawing for all it's worth”, Viking Pr

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• What is especially irritating about the whole abortion debate is the way the subject has been used as a political football by those on both the right and the left of the political aisle.

  Chuck Baldwin

  Football, Abortion, Political

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• Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been uttered or done by a nonbeliever. And here is my second challenge. Can any reader think of a wicked statement made, or an evil action performed, precisely because of religious faith? The second question is easy to answer, is it not? The first - I have been asking it for some time - awaits a convincing reply. By what right, then, do the faithful assume this irritating mantle of righteousness? They have as much to apologize for as to explain.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Faith, Religious, Thinking

  "An Atheist Responds" by Christopher Hitchens, www.washingtonpost.com. July 14, 2007.

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• The sociological evidence of the contagion of happiness and sadness suggests something quite remarkable: of all your relationships, of all the people capable of making you happiest or irritating you the most, those who have the greatest effect on your mood and even your state of health are those closest to hand.

  Lynne McTaggart

  Inspirational, Sadness, Hands

  Lynne McTaggart (2012). “The Bond: How to Fix Your Falling-Down World”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• There is hardly an aspect of contemporary history more irritating and mystifying than the fact that of all the great unsolved political questions of our century, it should have been this seemingly small and unimportant Jewish problem that had the dubious honor of setting the whole infernal machine in motion.

  Hannah

  Should Have, Political, Honor

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• Babies are like poems. They're beautiful to their creator, but to other people, they're silly and they're irritating.

  Doug Stanhope

  Funny, Beautiful, Baby

  "Something to Take the Edge Off". Comedy album by Doug Stanhope, 2000.

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• PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Noise, Toys

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• Theophilus Crowe's mobile phone played eight bars of "Tangled Up in Blue" in an irritating electronic voice that sounded like a choir of suffering houseflies, or Jiminy Cricket huffing helium, or, well, you know, Bob Dylan.

  Christopher Moore

  Eight, Phones, Blue

  Christopher Moore (2009). “The Stupidest Angel”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Why do Americans find government so baffling and irritating-even though many of us depend on public programs for a secure retirement, an affordable mortgage, or a college loan? In this timely and important book, political scientist Suzanne Mettler explains how the United States has come to rely on hidden, indirect policies that privilege special interests but puzzle regular citizens. American democracy can do better, and she shows how. Politicians and the public alike have much to learn from her brilliant and engaging analysis.

  Theda Skocpol

  Retirement, Book, College

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• Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

  Oscar Wilde

  Natural, Being Natural, Knows

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.6, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Speak English, Class, Way

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• WikiLeaks is irritating and annoying for Germany, but not a threat. From an international perspective, I see their actions as totally irresponsible.

  Thomas de Maiziere

  Perspective, Germany, Wikileaks

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