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• If you are committed to creating value and if you aren't afraid of hard times; obstacles become utterly unimportant. A nuisance perhaps; but with no real power. The world respects creation; people will get out of your way. - Candice Carpenter Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that's the one that is going to require the most from you.

  Caroline Myss

  Real, Hard Times, Creating Value

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• There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that he agrees with everybody. He confuses everybody. The second peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that everybody agrees with him. He enrages everybody. Between the two of them they produce a hundred times more disputes and distractions than we poor pugnacious people would ever have thought of in our lives.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Two, People

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• Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.

  Gertrude Stein

  Sometimes, Forget, Virtue

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…”, p.787, e-artnow

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• Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic.

  Christoph Waltz

  Light, Fantastic, Ten

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• The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.

  Lauren Willig

  Speak English, Language, Fortune

  Lauren Willig (2015). “The Lure of the Moonflower: A Pink Carnation Novel”, p.259, Penguin

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• Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that their mouths are allowed to wander around making a nuisance of themselves.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mind, Mouths, Matter

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• This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Civilization, Clothes, Lasts

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2013). “Tarzan Books 1 through 5”, eStar Books

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• At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you was as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, 'This too shall pass' - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a milk nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time.

  Jodi Picoult

  Eye, Light, Oxygen

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• The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are 'no account,' go away from home, and then you will have to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them-if the people you go among suffer by the operation.

  Mark Twain

  Home, Blessing, People

  Mark Twain (1872). “Roughing It”, p.570, Buccaneer Books

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• The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its annihilating act on the first try.

  Yiyun Li

  Long, Tragedy, Trying

  Yiyun Li (2014). “Kinder Than Solitude”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What's my mother going to tell strangers anyway? That I was a cute baby and that she's terribly proud of me? Nuts. Who cares?

  Montgomery Clift

  Cute, Mother, Baby

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's a legal term for a problem in public space: something that might draw people to an area-say, across train tracks-where they might be caused harm. It's called a 'public nuisance.' I wouldn't mind being called that for my life's work.

  Vito Acconci

  Space, People, Track

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• Horace, when you get older, try to avoid being saddled with an apprentice. Not only are they a damned nuisance, but apparently they constantly feel the need to get the better of their masters. They’re bad enough when they’re learning. But when they graduate, they become unbearable. [The Kings of Clonmel Pg.268]

  John Flanagan

  Kings, Trying, Needs

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• Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Bed, Dawn, Early Morning

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• I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we will certainly acquire much more reverence for life than we seem to be showing right now.

  Amory Lovins

  Life, Intelligent, Thinking

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• Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys.

  Charles de Lint

  Inspirational, Children, Kids

  Charles de Lint (2002). “The Onion Girl”, p.79, Macmillan

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• Calling noise a nuisance is like calling smog an inconvenience. Noise must be considered a hazard to the health of people everywhere.

  William H. Stewart

  Wind, People, Hazards

  "The Insidious Health Risk You Need To Know About: Noise Pollution" by Carrie Sturrock, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2017.

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• So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to human beings and to animals, that breaks into the Kraal at night and fetches the bull out of the herd: he is the destructive instinct.

  Carl Jung

  Night, Men, Animal

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• Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

  Margaret Atwood

  Women, Vanity, Giving

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Cat's Eye”, p.19, Anchor

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• You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Men, Drunk, Wish

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• There's all kinds of conservative donors. The Koch brothers are big donors. There's all kinds of them. But none of them have actively organized hate groups that run around and protest and try to upset people and get in as close as they can to their lives and the way they live them and make a nuisance of themselves. That's not how the right has always sought to win elections.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Brother, Hate

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Individuality, Democratic, Values

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• [Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones it ceases to be science and becomes a mere nuisance, like theology.

  H. L. Mencken

  Two, Facts, Minutes

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• The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems... There was a time when I thought it was a nuisance to be confronted with a problem. I tried to get rid of it. I tried to get somebody else to solve it for me. But that was a long time ago. It was a great day in my life when I discovered the wonderful purpose of problems. Yes, they have a wonderful purpose.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Law, Long, Great Day

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• It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance. Nobody wishes bad manners. We must have loyalty and character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Loyalty, Character, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2495, Delphi Classics

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