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• Uno de los derroches más infructuosos e irritantes del mundo son las discusiones -las discusiones contenciosas e interminables que se asemejan a peleas, y que causan rencillas en las familias y entre los amigos, y dejan sentimientos resentidos en los hogares, en los corazones, en los negocios y en las profesiones, y en toda clase de reuniones en lugares públicos y privados, y en todas las relaciones de la vida-, y con tan poco que parezca que se resuelven.

  Richard L. Evans

  Home, Heart, Feelings

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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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• No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven.

  Michio Kaku

  Beautiful, Matter, Facts

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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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• 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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• 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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• Era irritante que te señalaran tus defectos físicos tan claramente dos veces en una noche, una por una chica guapa y otra por un tejón moribundo.

  Tom Holt

  Beautiful, Girl, Workout

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

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• Among the more irritating consequences of our flagrantly religious society is the special dispensation that mainstream religions receive. We all may talk about religion as a powerful social force, but unlike other similarly powerful institutions, religion is not to be questioned, criticized or mocked.

  Natalie Angier

  Religious, Atheist, Powerful

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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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• 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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• Apenas hay un aspecto de la historia contemporánea más irritante y desconcertante que el hecho de que, de todas las grandes cuestiones políticas sin resolver de nuestro siglo, haya sido este aparentemente pequeño e insignificante problema judío el que haya tenido el dudoso honor de poner en marcha toda la máquina infernal.

  Hannah

  Should Have, Political, Honor

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• Lo que es especialmente irritante sobre todo el debate del aborto es la forma en que el tema ha sido utilizado como un fútbol político por los de la derecha y la izquierda del pasillo político.

  Chuck Baldwin

  Football, Abortion, Political

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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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• When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is ceasing to be. But when the dying one is a person, and a beloved person, then, besides a sense of horror at the annihilation of life, there is a feeling of severance and a spiritual wound which, like a physical wound, sometimes kills and sometimes heals, but always hurts and fears any external, irritating touch.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Spiritual, Hurt, Eye

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.1075, Random House

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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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• 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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• El teléfono móvil de Theophilus Crowe tocaba ocho compases de "Tangled Up in Blue" con una irritante voz electrónica que sonaba como un coro de sufridoras moscas domésticas, o Pepito Grillo resoplando helio, o, bueno, ya sabes, Bob Dylan.

  Christopher Moore

  Eight, Phones, Blue

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

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• Al principio se quedaba callada. Luego decía una palabra sobre algo pequeño, algo que había notado, y luego otra palabra, y otra, cada una lanzada como un trocito de arena, una desde esta dirección, otra forma detrás, más y más, hasta que su aspecto, su carácter, su alma se hubieran erosionado. . . Temía que alguna partícula invisible de verdad se me metiera en el ojo, empañara lo que estaba viendo y lo transformara del hombre divino que yo creía que era en alguien bastante mundano, herido de muerte por hábitos fastidiosos e imperfecciones irritantes.

  Amy Tan

  Character, Eye, Men

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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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• Una Oración Matutina El día regresa y nos trae la mezquina ronda de irritantes preocupaciones y deberes. Ayúdanos a hacernos los hombres; ayúdanos a realizarlos con risas y rostros amables, que la alegría abunde en la laboriosidad. Haz que sigamos alegremente con nuestros asuntos todo el día. Llévanos a nuestros lechos de descanso cansados y contentos y sin deshonra y concédenos al final el don del sueño.

  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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• 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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• If you reflect on your life, you may recall times when you couldn't see the value of some person and were tempted to brush him or her off. It takes hindsight to recognize that the very situation you may have seen as an irritating bother turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Wouldn't life be a much more enjoyable and meaningful experience if we decided to look at the difficult people and irritating situations as blessings in disguise? If we look deeply enough, we might see how these experiences as situations that motivate us to grow and change for the better.

  John Templeton

  Meaningful, Adversity, Blessing

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• Las pruebas sociológicas del contagio de la felicidad y la tristeza sugieren algo bastante notable: de todas tus relaciones, de todas las personas capaces de hacerte más feliz o de irritarte más, las que tienen mayor efecto sobre tu estado de ánimo e incluso tu estado de salud son las que tienes más a mano.

  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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• He aquí mi reto. Nombra una declaración ética hecha, o una acción ética realizada, por un creyente que no podría haber sido pronunciada o hecha por un no creyente. Y este es mi segundo reto. ¿Puede algún lector pensar en una afirmación malvada o en una acción malvada realizada precisamente a causa de la fe religiosa? La segunda pregunta es fácil de responder, ¿verdad? La primera -me la vengo planteando desde hace tiempo- espera una respuesta convincente. ¿Con qué derecho, entonces, asumen los fieles este irritante manto de rectitud? Tienen tanto de qué disculparse como de qué explicarse.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Faith, Religious, Thinking

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

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• Despite her cough, Rose was in unusually good spirits. That was irritating. If I’m to trade my life for Rose’s, I’d appreciate her exhibiting a touch of melancholy. Also acceptable would be despair.

  Franny Billingsley

  Appreciate, Rose, Despair

  Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.65, Penguin

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