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• You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Believe, Should Have, Play

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• I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine... What we take for granted as the stability of family life may well depend on the sexual slavery of our children. What's more, this is a cynical arrangement our institutions have colluded to conceal.

  Sylvia Fraser

  Children, Father, Reality

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• We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Giving Up, Simple, Taking Things For Granted

  John Desmond Bernal (1967). “The origin of life”

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• I fear that many of us rush about from day to day taking for granted the Holy Scriptures. We scramble to honor appointments with physicians, lawyers, and businessmen. Yet we think nothing of postponing interviews with Deity postponing scripture study. Little wonder we develop anemic souls and lose our direction in living. How much better it would be if we planned and held sacred fifteen or twenty minutes a day for reading the scriptures. Such interviews with Deity would help us recognize his voice and enable us to receive guidance in all of our affairs.

  Carlos E. Asay

  Reading, Thinking, Voice

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• The act of living had been enjoyable; at some point when I was not paying attention, it had turned into a different sort of experience, to whose grimness I had grown so accustomed that I now took it for granted.

  Paul Bowles

  Experience, Different, Attention

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• It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor.

  John Calvin

  Mother, Son, Honor

  Calvini Opera, Volume 45, 348, 1877-1878.

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• 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?

  Milton Friedman

  Taken, Care, Pay

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• Some strong-willed children absolutely demand to be spanked, and their wishes should be granted. Two or three stinging strokes on the legs or buttocks with a switch are usually sufficient to emphasize the point, 'You must obey me.'

  James Dobson

  Strong, Children, Wish

  "The Strong-Willed Child". Book by James Dobson, 1978.

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• If I were granted omnipotence, and millions of years to experiment in, I should not think Man much to boast of as the final result of all my efforts.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Thinking, Years

  Bertrand Russell (1935). “Religion and science”

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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

  Dad, Grew Up, Mum

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our German Fatherland to which I hope will be granted... to become in the future as closely united, as powerful, and as authoritative as once the Roman world-empire was, and that, just as in the old times they said, Civis romanus sum, hereafter, at some time in the future, they will say, I am a German citizen.

  Wilhelm II

  Powerful, Citizens, World

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• A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government.

  Byron White

  Government, Order, Criminals

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• We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.

  Antoinette Brown Blackwell

  Years, Two, Would Be

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• Legalism is a problem in the church, but so is anti-nomianism. Granted, I don't hear anyone saying, 'Let's continue in sin that grace may abound'. That's the worse form of antinomianism. But strictly speaking, antinomianism simply means no-law, and some Christians have very little place for the law in their pursuit of holiness.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Christian, Mean, Law

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• Fortunately, because of the spread of smart devices, people take games for granted now. It's a good thing for us, because we do not have to worry about making games something that are relevant to general people's daily lives.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Smart, Games, People

  "Nintendo's Miyamoto Doesn't Want to Make Games for People Who Have Only A 'Passive' Interest In Gaming" by Eddie Makuch, www.gamespot.com. August 27, 2014.

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• A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

  Alan Watts

  People, Intellectual, Philosopher

  Alan Watts (2011). “Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life: Collected Talks: 1960-1969”, p.73, New World Library

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

  Peyton Manning

  Blessed, Taken, Practice

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• Don't take anything for granted, because tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

  Kirby Puckett

  Tomorrow, Don't Take Anything For Granted

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• Unless the schools provide our children with a vision of human possibility that enlightens and empowers them with knowledge and taste, they will simply play their role in someone else's marketing schemes. Unless they understand deeply the sources of our democracy, they will take it for granted and fail to exercise their rights and responsibilities.

  Diane Ravitch

  Children, School, Responsibility

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• To [man] it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills.

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

  Men

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1953). “Oratio de Hominis Dignitate: Oration on the Dignity of Man. English Translation by Elizabet Livermore Forbes”

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• 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.

  Otto Weininger

  Taken, Simple, Animal

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• I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

  Mary Stewart

  Men, Get To Know Me, Knows

  Mary Stewart (2011). “My Brother Michael”, p.66, Hachette UK

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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.

  Che Guevara

  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.

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• My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.

  K. D. Lang

  Travel, Keys, World

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• We are able to breathe, drink, and eat in comfort because millions of organisms and hundreds of processes are operating to maintain a liveable environment, but we tend to take nature's services for granted because we don't pay money for most of them.

  Eugene Odum

  Comfort, Pay, Able

  "Ecology: A Bridge Between Science and Society". Book by Eugene Pleasants Odum, March 1, 1997.

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