Granted Quotes
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The surest way to lose democracy is to take it for granted. Every citizen must contribute to its advancement in some way. No nation or culture can long survive the absence of transcendent values and absolutes.
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Growing up in England, you're sort of spoiled, in a way. You sort of take it for granted that within a half-hour's drive, you could be walking around a stately home from the 1700s. It's not very hard to do - in California, you've got to take a flight!
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You always take for granted what you have until it is gone. And then you realize how much value it truly held in your life.
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Never take things for granted. Never ignore what is obvious.
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The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.
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I developed a really strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted.
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It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.
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I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood.
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You have to work hard not to take your partner for granted, even when you are tired.
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Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen that it works only, despite its pretensions, by taking the world largely for granted, we are not in a position to contrast all these appearances with an alternative reality. We cannot shed our ordinary responses, and if we could it would leave us with no means of conceiving a reality of any kind.
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I don't think we know yet what broadcast television did to us, although it obviously did lots. I don't think we're far enough away from it yet to really get a handle on it. We get these things, I think they start changing us right away, we don't notice we're changing. Our perception of the whole thing shifts, and then we're in the new way of doing things, and we take it for granted.
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We forget that our bodies are the most valuable, precious thing we have and take that miracle of life for granted.
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In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved.
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The attraction of dating is that you don't take yes for granted - - you're fully engaged, there's seductiveness, tension.
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It has always puzzled me that so many people have taken it for granted that God favors those who believe in him. Isn't it possible that the actual God is a scientific God who has little patience with beliefs founded on faith rather than evidence?
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The thing that sets Mars apart is that it is the one planet that is enough like Earth that you can imagine life possibly once having taken hold there.
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The way to get killed around machinery was to take things for granted.
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So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.
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Don't take things for granted.
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Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.
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One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.
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Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations.
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I never took fans for granted. I always assumed subconsciously that people who followed what I did were just people who were kind of like me.
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You have to be a pretty miserable person to not enjoy making movies. It's something I always dreamed about. I do not take it for granted.
