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  • 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  
  • 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  
  • The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.

    Song   Taken   Literature  
    Herbert Croly (2017). “Progressive Democracy”, p.215, Routledge
  • 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 of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered

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

    Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins
  • Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

    Country   Strong   Taken  
  • The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.

  • All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

    Taken   Greatness   Want  
    ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”
  • I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don't want to be here or something like that.

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

  • Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

    Father   Taken   Son  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return.

    BBC Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. March 30, 2004.
  • Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

    Themes and Variations (1950) "Variations on a Philosopher"
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Taken   Mars   Earth  
  • Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to make comparisons [to things that are better rather than things that are worse], to take things for granted [rather than imagining how much worse things would be if they weren't there and so feeling grateful], and to feel entitled!

  • I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

    Taken   Thinking   Tests  
  • You are always learning; there is a lot of grey; don't take things for granted.

    Interview With Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2012.
  • I try and take everyone's ideals, common morals, flip them around, make people look at them differently, question them, so that you're not always taking things for granted.

    People   Trying   Looks  
    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • We don't really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we've been taken for granted.

    Taken   Thinking   People  
  • I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

    Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria
  • I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.

  • Ungrateful people forget what they are not grateful for.

  • Never take anything for granted.

    Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.25, Gerald Duckworth & Co
  • Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly worry to come between us and our obstinate, indignant, defiant exultation, we are weakening our genius for life.

    Worry   Genius   Littles  
    "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys, p. 134, 1929.
  • In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to understand nature and not merely to observe it and endure what it imposes on us. Stupidity, from being an amiable individual defect, has become a social crime.

    John Desmond Bernal (1967). “The origin of life”
  • This time, there were no drugs involved. The hours were completely normal daytime hours. I think we were able to appreciate the interplay, where before we had taken it for granted.

  • I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously.

  • It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to.

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