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  • The inflow of capital from the developed countries is the prerequisite for the establishment of economic dependence. This inflow takes various forms: loans granted on onerous terms; investments that place a given country in the power of the investors; almost total technological subordination of the dependent country to the developed country; control of a country's foreign trade by the big international monopolies; and in extreme cases, the use of force as an economic weapon in support of the other forms of exploitation.

    Country   Support   Use  
    "On Development". Speech delivered at the plenary session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, www.marxists.org. March 25, 1964.
  • Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

    Shoshana Zuboff (1988). “In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power”, New York : Basic Books
  • The decisions we make about the Internet don't affect just the Internet – they are answers to basic questions about the relationship each citizen has to the government and about the extent to which we trust one another with the full range of fundamental rights granted by the Constitution.

    Mike Godwin (1998). “Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age”, Crown Business
  • It's always money no matter kind of budget you have, though, it forces you to be creative and not take anything for granted.

    Creative   Matter   Kind  
    Source: www.indiewire.com
  • Day after day we must remember we can take freedom for granted. Day after day we must keep the bond between freedom and other values in mind.

    Ties   Mind   Remember  
  • Granted you want to go beyond ideas and beyond thought, but that takes years of practice. If you must think, think good thoughts, happy thoughts, and constructive thoughts.

  • We often take for granted the notion that some people are insiders, while others are outsiders. But such a notion is a social contrivance, that, like virtually every public construct, is a legacy of a primordial and tribal mentality.

    Jamake Highwater (1997). “The Mythology of Transgression: Homosexuality as Metaphor”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.

    Taken   World   Granted  
    Robert Anton Wilson (1991). “The Widow's Son”, Roc
  • 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.

    Children   Taken   Cities  
  • It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

  • People can buy the kind of things they consider as normal and take for granted because of globalization and trade and use of supply chains and the reduction of the cost base of the manufacturing of some products.

    People   Cost   Use  
    "Christine Lagarde on slow growth, inequality and fighting cynicism". Interview with Kevin Carmichael, www.macleans.ca. September 12, 2016.
  • When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'

    Taken   Men   Umpires  
  • A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.

    Men   Evil   Granted  
    Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, p.7, Delphi Classics
  • So easy to take it for granted, but this is something no normal human was made to see. The world of magic has blessed me with wonders and it's only right to stop every now and then to appreciate it.

  • Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.

    Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”
  • The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.

    Song   Taken   Literature  
    Herbert Croly (2017). “Progressive Democracy”, p.215, Routledge
  • He who prays without confidence cannot hope that his prayers will be granted.

  • We tend to take a great deal for granted, because you feel like you're going to live forever. It's only if you lose a friend, or maybe have a near-death experience, [that] many events and people in your life suddenly attain real significance.

    Real   People   Forever  
  • Its always important to recognize your situation and not take it for granted.

  • [On highly politicized Islamists:] In the name of freedom they demand the right to renounce freedom. In the language of tolerance they demand that intolerance be granted a dignified place at the table.

  • I try to encourage people to think for themselves, to question standard assumptions... Don't take assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a skeptical attitude toward anything that is conventional wisdom. Make it justify itself. It usually can't. Be willing to ask questions about what is taken for granted. Try to think things through for yourself.

    Wisdom   Attitude   Taken  
    Institute Professor Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky, John Junkerman, Takei Masakazu (2015). “Power and Terror: Conflict, Hegemony, and the Rule of Force”, p.5, Routledge
  • Most people are one car wreck away from needing somebody's help. So, I don't take anything for granted much anymore.

    Car   People   Wrecks  
    "Sen. Lindsey Graham on fighting Islamic State, shoring up Social Security". www.pbs.org. June 4, 2015.
  • We take for granted electricity, water, even concerts. Count your blessings.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Teaching someone that doesn't know something forces you to think about almost every single aspect of it, including parts of it that you could sort of take for granted.

    Teaching   Thinking   Mma  
  • Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.

    Keys   Liberty   Locks  
  • 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.

    Fashion   Taken   Self  
    "Organizational Culture and Leadership: A Dynamic View". Book by Edgar Schein, 1985.
  • If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.

    Taken   Ideas   People  
    Challenges and Strategy Memo, May 16, 1991.
  • Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.

    FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Jan 22, 2017
  • Punctuationally speaking, wonder is a period at the end of a statement we've long taken for granted, suddenly looking up and seeing the sinuous curve of a tall black hat on its head, and realizing it was a question mark all along.

    Taken   Curves   Long  
    David James Duncan (2002). “My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-watchings, Fish-stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark”, p.88, Univ of California Press
  • Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered

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