1. "we seem to have a choice—bypass the gastrointestinal tract or bypass the highly processed diet."
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David Ludwig, Always Hungry?: Conquer cravings
2. "When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power."
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Quote by Ezra Taft Benson
3. "When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes a quest, in that movement God endows us with power."
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Quote by Ezra Taft Benson
4. "Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning."
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Quote by Carol Ann Duffy
5. "Label-locked thinking can affect treatment. For instance, I heard a doctor say about a kid with gastrointestinal issues, Oh, he has autism. That’s the problem—and then he didn’t treat the GI problem."
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Temple Grandin, The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum
6. "A good story is [a] kind of irritant. You read it, then you cannot stop thinking about it. Eventually, your mind and heart encyst about it, and what occurs is a pearl of the soul."
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Jane Yolen, Take Joy: A Writer's Guide to Loving the Craft
7. "Cronkite had mastered the intentional pause, the need for frozen seconds of long silence at certain historic moments. Nobody before or after Cronkite had mastered the art of communicating news on television nightly without ever becoming an irritant."
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Douglas Brinkley, Cronkite
8. "Permit the paradox of wanting the irritant to vanish and allowing it to be what it is. Look inward for it in your thoughts and allow yourself to feel it wherever it is and however it moves in your body."
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Wayne W. Dyer, Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao
9. "The ideal muse is a woman whose rough edges and contradictions drive you to fill in the blanks of her character. She is the irritant to your creativity. A remarkable possibility, waiting to be formed."
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Kathleen Tessaro, The Perfume Collector
10. "Further evidence of perpetrators’ lack of overt psychopathology is found in reports of their early reactions to the human suffering caused by their extraordinary evil. A wide range of perpetrator accounts reveal that initial involvement in killing often led to nightmares, anxiety attacks, debilitating guilt, depression, gastrointestinal problems, temporary impotence, hallucinations, substance abuse, numerous bodily complaints, and many other signs of stress reactions."
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James Waller, Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing