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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.


Aldous Huxley
Tags: Things Most Human
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon
Tags: Take Believe Read
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I don't take anything for granted.


Steve Yzerman
At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged.
David Puttnam
Tags: Power Go Take
Creativity is an energy. It's a precious energy, and it's something to be protected. A lot of people take for granted that they're a creative person, but I know from experience, feeling it in myself, it is a magic; it is an energy. And it can't be taken for granted.
Ava DuVernay
Our democracy is not something to be taken for granted. You have to fight for it. You have to commit yourself to working for it - for the long haul.
Keith Ellison
Tags: You Our Something
I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.
Jane Pauley
Tags: Just Because Life
Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.
Claire Danes
Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
David Rockefeller
Tags: Very Being He
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The right to love is granted to anyone.


Tzipi Livni
Tags: Love Right Anyone
As a modern woman, there are things I take for granted, and that shows up in the way I sit, the way I walk, the way I think, and what I know to be possible.
Lorraine Toussaint
Tags: Think Up Know
Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings.
Daisaku Ikeda
Tags: Never Am I Am
And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport.
Salma Hayek
Tags: Good Great Women
As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby.
Susan Oliver
Tags: You People Get
Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.
Toni Morrison
Tags: Money People Just
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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.


Eartha Kitt
Tags: Never Any Take
Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.
Michael Ende
Tags: Time Great About
Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.
Charlie Dent
Tags: Freedom Been Our
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I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted.


Mario Andretti
The MAVNI program allows citizenship to be granted to any enlistee who serves one day of wartime service.
Paul Gosar
Tags: Who Any Day
You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.
Whitey Ford
Tags: You Always Going
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Life doesn't make any sense unless you can enjoy the journey, and sometimes I take that for granted.


Scott Weiland
Tags: You Life Make
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I can say sincerely, don't take your voice for granted. It is truly what makes us all equal.


Two Chainz
Tags: Your Say Us
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Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.


Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Tags: Our World Us
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I realize I can never take my success for granted. It's not attractive for anyone to be like that.


Shannon Tweed
Tags: Like Never Take
We have been given the trust and goodwill of New Zealanders. I do not take that trust for granted, and I never will.
John Key
Tags: Trust Been Will
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
Coco Chanel
Tags: Like Life Would
There are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the great migration. Motown, for example, would not have existed - it simply would not, because Berry Gordy, the founder of it, his parents had migrated from Georgia to Detroit where he founded Motown, and where did he get his talent?
Isabel Wilkerson
Tags: Great Because Get
Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.
Charles de Lint
Tags: People Like Our
Today, even small entities that trade complex instruments or are granted sufficient leverage can threaten the global financial system.
Paul Singer
Tags: Even Today Small
Don't take anything for granted. If you don't believe in yourself, nobody else will. Have a little more confidence.
Cathy Moriarty
Tags: You More Will
I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.
Ziggy Marley
Tags: Being Much Take
An adult human can last 40 days without food, a week without any sleep, three days without water, but only five minutes without air. Yet nothing is more taken for granted than the air we breathe. However, not just any air will do - it must be exquisitely designed to meet our needs. Too little oxygen in the atmosphere will kill us, as will too much.
Hugh Ross
Tags: Food Just More
The first thing you have to do is make sure you're still wanted back. I never take that for granted any more.
Tony Dungy
Tags: You More Never
To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
Zendaya
Tags: You Me Out
Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.
Ryan Phillippe
Tags: Business You More
Too many people take New York for granted. The primary reason is that history is not taught. That's outrageous in a city where the past is still visible.
Pete Hamill
Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.
Alexis Herman
A lot of people are surprised to hear that an actor studied for two or three years. They take the craft for granted and wanna just wake up and be an actor.
Taylor Kitsch
Tags: People Just Up
I love going out to clubs. Granted, I don't get hammered or do anything to embarrass myself. I'd call myself wholesome... but it's not like I only drink milk.
Carrie Underwood
Tags: Like Get Out