Granted Quotes - Page 14

• What I consistently say to young people - I say it in the United States, but I'll say it here in Germany and across Europe: Do not take for granted our systems of government and our way of life. I think there is a tendency, because we have lived in an era that has been largely stable and peaceful, at least in advanced countries, where living standards have generally gone up, there is a tendency I think to assume that that's always the case.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, Government

  Source: time.com

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• I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an independent judiciary, and fighting corruption, those are principles that, you know, not perfectly but generally, we have tried to apply not just in our own country but also with respect to our foreign policy.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Taken, Independent

  Source: time.com

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• We can lose so much of what we've gained in terms of the kind of democratic freedoms and market-based economies and prosperity that we've come to take for granted.

  Barack Obama

  Kind, Prosperity, Economy

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• I think that what art can do is refresh our sense of justice, wake us up to what we've taken for granted in the political realm, as in the other realms.

  Robert Hass

  Art, Taken, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Unaccountable private power concentrations that dominate economic and social life have the means to seek to "regiment the public mind," and become "tools and tyrants" of government, in James Madison's memorable phrase, as he warned of the threats he discerned to the democratic experiment if private powers were granted free rein.

  Noam Chomsky

  Memorable, Mean, Government

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• I think that there is generally less of a community and that the fragmentation of the left is a symptom. I think that it is less and less possible to take for granted certain cultural references.

  Susan Sontag

  Thinking, Community, Symptoms

  Source: ctheory.net

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• That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.

  Susan Sontag

  Zero, Community, Assumption

  Source: ctheory.net

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• That tendency of social thought to generalize, to describe a leading tendency in a society in such a way that it seems that everything falls within its iron laws, is very common. Of course our own experience tells us that life is not as monochrome as these thinkers depict it. On the other hand they are very valuable because they alert us to transformations we are likely to take for granted.

  Susan Sontag

  Fall, Hands, Law

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Scientists generally, not just evolutionary biologists, don't take much for granted.

  Noam Chomsky

  Scientist, Biologist

  Source: libcom.org

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• Don't get caught up in other people's expectations. Don't take anything for granted, either.

  Jim Gaffigan

  People, Expectations, Caught

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I love making music and performing for my fans, and I want to be happy and doing what I love still. I'm not taking a moment of this for granted, and if I'm lucky I'll be able to keep doing this. I love it. I'm very happy.

  Ariana Grande

  Fans, Lucky, Want

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Democracy takes work. That's the thing we're really finding out, that, you know, in many ways, you know, the past two decades we've taken for granted all of the extraordinary achievements of the post-war generation. You know, building this global alliance structure that has kept the peace across the North Atlantic since World War II. Building all of these institutions, building all this remarkable technology. And people have privatized. You know, you can now, you don't have to go outdoors much, the whole world comes to you.

  David Frum

  War, Taken, Past

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• Refugees have been displaced by war or natural disaster or political catastrophes, and they are much more threatening because they are reminders to people that all the comforts that we take for granted can be taken away in just a moment.

  Nguyen Viet Thang

  War, Taken, People

  "Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Viet Thanh Nguyen 'Never Stopped Being a Refugee'". Interview with Kanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2017.

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• There are numbers of different types of partnerships or pairings that may exist in society that aren't same-gender sexual relationships that provide for some right that we have no objection to. All that said... there may be on occasion some specific rights that we would be concerned about being granted to those in a same-gender relationship. Adoption is one that comes to mind, simply because that is a right which has been historically, doctrinally associated so closely with marriage and family.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Numbers, Rights, Adoption

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• The private sector granted bursaries [scholarships] for the children of their workers. Some of them built homes for their workers. They had in-service training, which improved the skills of their workers. So that spirit was there. All we did was merely exploit it.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Home, Skills

  Source: www.mott.org

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• You want to trace California's move to the far left, you go back to the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli bill. Simpson-Mazzoli was where we granted amnesty to, at the time, what was three and a half million illegal aliens. And that's it. We were told that would be it. We would start being strict about guarding the borders and making sure that there wasn't any more illegal immigration, but that didn't happen. That was the design. Ted Kennedy, Simpson-Mazzoli, it was their idea here and it's worked out magnificently for them to this extent.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Moving, Ideas, California

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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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.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Miracle, Body, Forget

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• One thing that concerns me is that today's young women don't seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes no express statement about the equal citizenship stature of men and women. They know there are no closed doors anymore, and they may take for granted the rights that they have.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Men, Rights, Doors

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• The drives you take for granted ("I'm a hetero/homosexual," "I'm attracted to children/adults," "I'm aggressive/not aggressive," and so on) depend on the intricate details of your neural machinery.

  David Eagleman

  Children, Details, Adults

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.163, Vintage

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• That one lesson that African American communities have learned over the centuries in America is that you can't just take for granted that things will steadily get better and better and better until they're great. It is fits and starts. It is backward and forward.

  Ben H. Winters

  America, Community, Get Better

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I think that as human beings, we quite naturally take for granted what is similar among human beings and, then, pay attention to what differentiates us. That makes perfect sense for us as human beings.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Perfect, Attention

  Source: chomsky.info

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• I suppose frogs pay no attention to being frogs. They take it for granted. What interests a frog are differences among frogs. From our point of view they are more or less the same, from their point of view they are all radically different.

  Noam Chomsky

  Views, Differences, Different

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Imagine an extrahuman observer looking at us. Such an extrahuman observer would be struck precisely by the uniformity of human languages, by the very slight variation from one language to another, and by the remarkable respects in which all languages are the same. And then he would notice we do not pay any attention to that because for the purpose of human life it is quite natural and appropriate just to take for granted everything that is common. We don't concern ourselves with that, all we worry about are differences.

  Noam Chomsky

  Differences, Worry, Would Be

  Source: chomsky.info

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• I think the activism of the 1960s had a very definite civilizing effect on the whole society in all kinds of ways. So lots of things that by now are almost taken for granted were heretical in the 1960s. We had anti-sodomy laws until not many years ago.

  Noam Chomsky

  Taken, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I'm extremely blessed. There's a lot of people trying to exactly what I'm doing, but I'm a part of that 9.1 percent that's actually having their dream come true. I just don't take that for granted.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Dream, Blessed, People

  Source: www.ebony.com

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