Given Quotes
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The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to LACK that knowledge.
Chip Heath
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People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
Sarah Churchwell
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We're emotionally unfit. We expect things to be given to us that other generations had to earn. We think we're supposed to get homes with no money down and be supported by the government if we're unemployed.
Anthony Robbins
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Apparently being a mermaid is dead dull. I watched The Little Mermaid with her once a few years ago—she thought it was freaking hilarious. She couldn’t stop laughing about the shell-bra thing, given that mermaids aren’t mammals. Plus, as she put it, Prince Eric was far too hairy and “peach colored” for her taste. I always thought he was pretty hot, but then again, I am a mammal.
Kiersten White
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Ylli, Agron and Mehmet were never given a fair and public trial, an opportunity to defend themselves, or any semblance of due process. Their post-conflict, extrajudicial killing was cold-blooded murder.
Avis Bohlen
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That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire.
William Shakespeare
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Basically, when I look at my life, I think I'm lucky to be given the opportunities I've had.
Michael Patrick Jann
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What was freely given to me, I freely give.
Lauryn Hill
Fugees
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The whole point of creating music for me is to give voice to things that aren't normally given voice to.
Thomas Edward Yorke
Atoms for Peace
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It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me...if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me.
Helen Keller
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Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.
Sigrid Undset
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I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time.
Tim Ferriss
