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  • The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents.

    Lying   Marijuana   Law  
  • Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

    Joseph Addison (1837). “The Spectator, no. 1-314”, p.251
  • I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?

    Mistake   Odd   Found  
  • The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

  • Beware of Methodologies. They are a great way to bring everyone up to a dismal, but passable, level of performance, but at the same time, they are aggravating to more talented people who chafe at the restrictions that are placed on them.

    People   Levels   Way  
    "Big Macs vs. The Naked Chef". Personal Website, www.joelonsoftware.com. January 18, 2001.
  • Trying to control the emotional self willfully by manipulative attempts is like trying to choose a number on a thrown die or to push back the water of the Kamo River upstream. Certainly, they end up aggravating their agony and feeling unbearable pain because of their failure in manipulating the emotions.

    Pain   Emotional   Self  
  • We are all here on this planet, as it were, as tourists. None of us can live here forever. The longest we might live is a hundred years. So while we are here we should try to have a good heart and to make something positive and useful of our lives. Whether we live just a few years or a whole century, it would be truly regrettable and sad if we were to spend that time aggravating the problems that afflict other people, animals, and the environment. The most important things is to be a good human being.

    His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.358, Penguin Books India
  • An aggravating feature of this post-9/11 atmosphere is to cast suspicions on Muslims and on Islam as a religion that is interpreted as either inherently violent or death-oriented, with a particular animus against America and Americans.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery of liberty.

    Men   Law   Liberty  
  • They're betting on how long I'll live!" I burst out. "They're not my friends!" "Well, try and pretend!" snaps Effie. Then she composes herself and beams at me. "See, like this. I'm smiling at you even though you're aggravating me.

    Long   Trying   Beam  
    Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.110, Scholastic Inc.
  • Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

  • You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it.

    Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.10, Hamilton Books
  • I like it better that people aren't throwing stuff at my face and trying to fight me on stage. Like in the '80s, it was just aggravating all the time... I have scars from cigars and cigarettes on me, Bic pens, burns from cigarette lighters, all that.

    Source: oustedproductions.net
  • While the coach is entitled to celebrate the team's victories, there is a manner and a way of doing so without aggravating the opponent

  • Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.

  • Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

    Funny   Cat   Fighting  
    Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.9, 谷月社
  • Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your brother do you an injury, do not take it by the hot hard handle, by representing to yourself all the aggravating circumstances of the fact; but look rather on the soft side, and extenuate it as much as is possible, by considering the nearness of the relation, and the long friendship and familiarity between you--obligations to kindness which a single provocation ought not to dissolve. And thus you will take the accident by its manageable handle.

    Brother   Kindness   Two  
  • That's an aspect of this business which can be very frustrating and aggravating. Most of what is written about you is wrong and so much of what does get printed is often about personal things that you don't want to have other people read about.

  • Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf.

    Golf   Games   Wonderful  
  • There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.

  • Educators who have said, "We don't like that, so we'll continue to teach as if it's not happening," are just aggravating the gap between what happens in schools and what happens in the real world. Because of their personalities, or for cultural reasons, some kids might better express themselves through moving images and sound.

    Real   Moving   School  
    "Sunday Interview - Seymour Papert/ Computers in the Lives of Our Children/ an Mit Mathematician and Philosopher Is Exploring How Technology Can Educate the Next Generation - and Their Parents". www.sfgate.com. February 2, 1997.
  • I never felt pressured to create more stories, but dealing with people became really aggravating.

    Source: www.complex.com
  • Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.

  • Much of the blame for the situation lies with the states themselves. They haven't been able to pass decent laws. For decades, tax authorities have been taking aim at the phenomenon of tax havens, and the most aggravating thing is that they aren't just in Bermuda or on the Cayman Islands, but right outside our front door.

    Lying   Blame   Authority  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won't talk back - unless it is a woman who won't.

    Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY - The Woman Behind The Books: Autobiography & Private Letters (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy & The Blue Castle): The Alpine Path (Memoirs), Complete Chronicles of Avonlea, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Jane of Lantern Hill, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon and more”, p.165, e-artnow
  • I just said, you know, this is a great track but this lyric, I don't believe it. It sounds like I'm trying to say something, instead of it naturally coming out of me, like I was saying something that I already knew. Anyway, I can't remember what it was. And either I threw it all out or I threw 90 percent of it out, and kept a line or two. That's happened a couple of times to me. Not too often, but a couple of times. Very aggravating when it does happen.

  • There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I am very active on Twitter and one thing that keeps popping up is "How do I balance having a kid and writing?" And I know it should not be as aggravating, but I know no one ever asks a male writer that. Or, any male that.

    Writing   Kids   Balance  
    Interview With Svetlana Legetic, brightestyoungthings.com. January 22, 2016.
  • But then back on lithium and rotating on the planet at the same pace as everyone else, you find your credit is decimated, your mortification complete: mania is not a luxury one can easily afford. It is devastating to have the illness and aggravating to have to pay for medications, blood tests, and psychotherapy. They, at least, are partially deductible. But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so.

    Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison (2007). “Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression”, p.40, Oxford University Press
  • They're betting on how long I'll live!' I burst out. 'They're not my friends!

    Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.157, Scholastic Inc.
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