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• So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'.

  Frank Carson

  Funny, Humor, Want

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• When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

  Charles Olson

  Government, Politics, Cease

  Charles Olson (1979). “Muthologos: the collected lectures & interviews”

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• I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

  Edith Sitwell

  Death, Awful

  "The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell". Book by Elizabeth Salter, 1967.

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• Particular nuisances (are) smoke, sewage odours, dust and similar aerosols, and vibrations.

  Yehuda Levi

  Dust, Vibrations, Particular

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• It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Education, Hard Work, Knowledge

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• Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Women, Has Beens, Ghastly

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• What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

  Havelock Ellis

  Change, Progress And Change, Progress

  Impressions and Comments (1914) 31 July 1912

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• There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of manmade evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dog, Years, Two

  "Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch". Book by Neil Gaiman, May 1, 1990.

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• If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.

  Augustus

  Rome, Wife, Citizens

  The Julian marriage laws (nos. 120-123, etc.), www.unrv.com.

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• Property is a nuisance.

  Paul Erdos

  Property

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• War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace time.

  John Hay Beith

  Funny, War, Wipe

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• There was a nuisance in the service known as the army correspondent.

  Daniel Harvey Hill

  Army, Known

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• I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Selfish, Women, Jealous

  George Bernard Shaw (2016). “Pygmalion”, p.29, Xist Publishing

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• I really started getting my body ready when I was a freshman in high school. I had just been skating so much, and just started getting so annoyed with leg hair and arm hair, because I was falling so much when I was learning. So I would get scabs on my legs, and the hair would get caught in it. It just became a nuisance. And from that point on, I continued to shave my arms and legs and tried to stay sleek.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Fall, School, Hair

  "Ryan Sheckler Talks Manscaping". Interview with Lucas Wisenthal, www.askmen.com.

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• Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Realizing, Bernard Shaw

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• Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance.

  Neil Welliver

  Art, War, Struggle

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• As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me -- But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.

  Virginia Woolf

  Believe, Drawing, People

  Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1977). “A change of perspective”, Vintage

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• Use their tactics if you feel strongly enough. Make a nuisance of yourself. Make an official complaint. Take it to a tribunal. As an atheist youre part of a minority whose beliefs are constantly ignored and marginalised while religious prejudice is pandered to and encouraged, and you have every right to be offended by that... Remember, one person on their own cant do much, but a million people each doing a little every day can change things very quickly.

  Pat Condell

  Religious, Atheist, People

  "Laughing religion off the planet with Pat Condell". Interview with Dave McKeegan, freethinker.co.uk. February 27, 2008.

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• Everybody's tragedy is somebody's nuisance.

  Winifred Holtby

  Tragedy

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• You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Men, Forgiving, Learn To Forgive

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings (Kim, The Jungle Book, The Man Who Would Be King, Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)”, p.57, e-artnow

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• The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Ideas, Today

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• Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Isis, Views, Issues

  "Zbigniew Brzezinski On Trump's Foreign Policy". "Morning Edition" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. March 17, 2017.

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• One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

  Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

  Mean, Oracles, Ballots

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• Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Intellectual, Trying

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.692, GENERAL PRESS

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• I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.

  Will Rogers

  Mean, Men, Paper

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1980). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Harding”

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