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“Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.”

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Author:Joyce Brothers

“Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess, I'm afraid for myself ... the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting so I live every moment with terrible intensity. Last night, driving back from Boston, I lay back in the car and let the colored lights come at me, the music from the radio, the reflection of the guy driving. It all flowed over me with a screaming ache of pain ... remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted. When you feel that this may be the good-bye, the last time, it hits you harder.”

“About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day, but it seems to me it´s just the contrary. Often it´s something you paid no attention to at the time -- a vague thought that you didn´t bother to think out to the end, words spoken without feeling and which passed unnoticed -- these are the things that return at night, clothed in flesh and blood, and they become the subjects of dreams, as if to make up for having been ignored during waking hours.”

“Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.”

Sometimes Taken Granted Taken For Granted Yardsticks High Points

Author:Jasper Fforde

“That did it. I'd gone through a lot in the past few days. Everyone I met seemed to want a piece of me: djinn, magicians, humans...it made no difference.I'd been summoned, manhandled, shot at, captured, constricted, bossed about and generally taken for granted. And now, to cap it all, this bloke is joining in too, when all I'd been doing was quietly trying to kill him.”

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Author:Jonathan Stroud

“Nothing could be taken for granted. Women who loved you tried to cut your throat, while women who didn't even know your name scrubbed your back. Witches could sound like Katharine Hepburn and your best friend could try to strangle you. Smack in the middle of an orchid there might be a blob of jello and inside a Mickey Mouse doll, a fixed and radiant star.”

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Author:Toni Morrison

“This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted.”

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Author:James A. Baldwin

“Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.”

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Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“I thought about the earth then, really thought about it, the tsunami's and earthquakes and volcanoes, all the horrors I haven't witnessed but have changed my life, the lives of everyone I know, all the people I'll never know. I thought about life without the sun, the moon, stars, without flowers and warm days in May. I thought about a year ago and all the good things I'd taken for granted and all the unbearable things that had replaced those simple blessings. And even though I hated the thought of crying in from of Syl, tears streamed down my face.”

“Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples. Some have more, some have less, but only truly abnormal people have none at all. This commonsense philosophy had consoled me many times before, and it did now, too.”

“Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.”

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Author:Paula Abdul

“I've always assumed he'd be around to be, you know, yelled at and taken for granted. And of course I was wrong. Nobody's going to put up with that forever.”

Knows Courses Forever Taken Granted Be You Taken For Granted

Book:Undead and Unappreciated: A Queen Betsy Novel

Source: Undead and Unappreciated: A Queen Betsy Novel

“It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.”

May Reason Taken Granted Prudent Taken For Granted

Book:Around The World in 80 Days

Source: Around The World in 80 Days

“Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.”

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

“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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Author:Niall Ferguson

“Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched, every conceit or endeavor you've ever concocted, can be stripped from you in an instant. Sooner or later, it will happen. So prepare yourself. Be ready not to be ready. Be ready to be brought to your knees and beaten to dust. Because no stable foundation, no act of will, no force of cautious habit will save you from this fact: nothing is indestructible.”

Source: The Fundamentals of Caring

“You could not turn off love- even the rather absent, sometimes taken for granted love- the way you'd turn off a faucet. Love ran from the heart and the heart had it's own imperatives”

Way Heart Sometimes Turns Taken Granted Ran Imperatives Absent Turn Off Taken For Granted

Book:Full Dark, No Stars

Source: Full Dark, No Stars

“The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.”

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Book:Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas

Source: Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas

“She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd taken for granted.”

Want Different Past Taken Granted Taken For Granted

Author:Freya North

“Time was like the rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted. Until you love a mortal. Then time became gold in a miser's hands, every bright year counted out carefully, infinitely precious, and each one slipping through you fingers. Cassandra Clare: What Really Happened in Peru”

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Author:Cassandra Clare

“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.”

“Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by everyone on faith, without any discussion or doubts. Why must people do this?”

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Book:A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

Source: A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

“We humans have existed in our present form for about a hundred thousand years. I believe that if during this time the human mind had been primarily controlled by anger and hatred, our overall population would have decreased. But today, despite all our wars, we find that the human population is greater than ever. This clearly indicates to me that love and compassion predominate in the world. And this is why unpleasant events are "news"; compassionate activities are so much a part of daily life that they are taken for granted and , therefore, largely ignored.”

“It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.”

“It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.”

Should Mean Liberty Taken Rights Atheism Positive Atheism Granted Exclusion Taken For Granted

Book:The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine

Source: The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine

“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”

“Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted.”

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Author:Chester W. Nimitz

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Author:Michael Jackson

“Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.”

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Author:Ralph Washington Sockman

“In the life of the human spirit, words are action, much more so than many of us realize who live in countries where freedom of expression is taken for granted. The leaders of totalitarian nations understand this very well. The proof is that words are precisely the action for which dissidents in those countries are being persecuted.”

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Book:Jimmy Carter

Source: Jimmy Carter

“I think the fault is more with historicists who have stubbornly failed to develop a good theory of historicity. By simply resting on the feeble laurels of prima facie plausibility ('Jesus existed because everyone said so') and subjective notions of absurdity ('I can't believe Jesus didn't exist!'), the existence of Jesus has largely been taken for granted, even by competent historians who explicitly try to argue for it.”

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Author:Earl Doherty

“Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation says "I." And in each case it seems to be taken for granted that this I belongs to the Whole, to the whole man, and that a thought, a desire, or an aversion is expressed by this Whole.”

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Author:P.D. Ouspensky

“I am inspired by the professionalism of others. I believe there is an obligation to strive for excellence in what one is asked to do. No pains are too great, no revisions too tedious no matter how small the result. But I also believe that while humility should not be overdone, excellence should never be taken for granted, otherwise we stop reaching for it.”

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Author:Densey Clyne

“Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Condiments are like old friends - highly thought of, but often taken for granted.”

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Author:Marilyn Kaytor

“Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.”

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Author:Peter Straub

“Nothin' taken for granted, just learn from my mistakes. My will too strong, my spirit's somethin' they can't take.”

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Author:Slim the Mobster

“It is not simply to be taken for granted that the Christian has the privilege of living among other Christians. Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies. … So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work.”

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Book:Life Together

Source: Life Together

“No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.”

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Book:Regarding the Pain of Others

Source: Regarding the Pain of Others

“Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic 'taken for granted' fashion an organization's view of its self and its environment.”

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Author:Edgar Schein

“Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded.”

Taken Victory Gratitude Granted Smallest Taken For Granted

Book:A Burst of Light: and Other Essays

Source: A Burst of Light: and Other Essays

“It is taken for granted that workers should receive their pay partly in kind, in the form of medical care provided by the employer. How come? Why single out medical care? Surely food is no less essential to life than medical care. Why is it not at least as logical for workers to be required to buy their food at the company store as to be required to buy their medical care at the company store?”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.”

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Author:Michael Ignatieff

“Ive never taken for granted what weve had, not for one single game, not one single practice, ... Ive truly been blessed.”

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Author:Peyton Manning

“Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.”

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Author:Florence Griffith Joyner

“There are transitional forms between the metals and non-metals; between chemical combinations and simple mixtures, between animals and plants, between phanerogams and cryptogams, and between mammals and birds [...]. The improbability may henceforth be taken for granted of finding in Nature a sharp cleavage between all that is masculine on the one side and all that is feminine on the other; or that any living being is so simple in this respect that it can be put wholly on one side, or wholly on the other, of the line.”

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Author:Otto Weininger

“Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.”

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Book:Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose

Source: Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose

“The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted.”

“Up until the late unpleasantness of the Civil war, then, the right of secession was more or less taken for granted in many quarters, and there has never been any amendment or even a Supreme Court decision saying it's improper. - Samual Francis, Secession May Be Legal But Not Expedient, Conservative Chronicles If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.”

“I don't take anything for granted.”

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Author:Bubba Watson

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