Granted Quotes
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And so my brother Gilbert and I, brought up without a formal religion, remained throughout our lifetimes just what Father was, freethinkers. And, likewise, doubters and dissenters and perhaps Utopians. Father's rule had been 'Question everything, take nothing for granted,' and I never outlived it, and I would suggest it be made the motto of a world journalists' association.
George Seldes
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Never take things for granted. Never ignore what is obvious.
Arnold Arre
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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.
Willis Lamb
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One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.
William Graham Sumner
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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.
Josh Duhamel
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With R-rated movie you're not dealing with the restrictions imposed by the FCC. They're self-imposed. In a way, that does make it harder. You actually have to think about it, as opposed to just taking for granted that you're not going to be able to do this.
Seth MacFarlane
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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.
William Gibson
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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.
Max Lerner
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What we face is a scared populace, and because it's scared, it's willing to put up with what I think are inevitably more moves toward the constriction of civil liberties, mobility within the country, the ability to travel overseas, all of those things we have long taken for granted.
Michael Scheuer
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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.
Steven Squyres
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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.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just improve the things that are not so good. What is lacking in this conception is any sense that a society, an institution, or even a single human being, is an intricate system of fragile inter-relationships, whose complexities are little understood and easily destabilized.
Thomas Sowell
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You have to work hard not to take your partner for granted, even when you are tired.
Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
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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.
Thomas Nagel
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Don't take anything for granted. If you don't believe in yourself, nobody else will. Have a little more confidence.
Cathy Moriarty
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Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations.
Eugene Linden
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At about twelve I just knew, something clicked, and I knew I wanted to be an actor and my parents, to their credit, granted this 12 year old girl a chance to give it a try.
Erika Christensen
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Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.
Tony Abbott