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• You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right.

  Robert E. Lee

  Children, Honesty, Mean

  John Esten Cooke, Robert E. Lee (2017). “General Robert E. Lee: The True Story of the Infamous “Marble Man”: The Life & Legacy of Robert E. Lee, Including & Personal Writings, Speeches and Orders”, p.42, Madison & Adams

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

  Audre Lorde

  Gratitude, Taken, Victory

  Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Dover Publications

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• Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it on this new day which has been granted you.

  James Galway

  Running, New Day, Use

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• One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.

  Peter Drucker

  Time, Unique, Yesterday

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• But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.

  Wendell Willkie

  Historical, Facts, Historical Facts

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• I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.

  John Guare

  New York, Thinking, Years

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• It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted.

  Adrien Brody

  Loneliness, Loss, People

  "Profile: Adrien Brody" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2003.

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• I think there are steps that can be taken that haven't been required or energy to make that fight more secure and we are going to continue to push the federal government to do that.

  George Pataki

  Taken, Fighting, Thinking

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• Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves; all men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.

  Marquis de Sade

  Sex, Men, Rights

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• Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.

  Tillie Olsen

  Doe, Used

  Tillie Olsen (1995). “Tell Me a Riddle”, p.103, Rutgers University Press

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• Unity cannot be taken for granted.

  Jomo Kenyatta

  Taken, Taken For Granted, Unity

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• It's strange that those we miss the most Are those we take for granted.

  John Betjeman

  Missing, Strange

  John Betjeman, “The Hon. Sec”

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• A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.

  Dorothy Height

  Kind, Problem

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• Life is a gift. Never take it for granted.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Inspirational, Life Is, Life Is A Gift

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Taken, Character, Ideas

  Lawrence Lessig (2002). “The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World”, p.5, Vintage

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• The Degree to which I am blessed staggers me... the degree to which I take that for granted shames me. -Streetwalking with Jesus

  John Green

  Jesus, Blessed, Degrees

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• Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never returns.

  Nelson Mandela

  Taken, Past, Should Have

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.160, Pan Macmillan

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• Motherhood is so honorable a thing that nothing - no convention - can possibly make it dishonorable; and from the standpoint of the right of the child . . . the unmarried mother should be granted by society the same reverence and regard as the married mother.

  Ben Lindsey

  Mother, Children, Married

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

  Iris Murdoch

  Relationship, Happiness, Marriage

  Iris Murdoch (1976). “A Severed Head”, p.148, Penguin

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• Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

  George Orwell

  Life, Happiness, Truth

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 7 (1949) See Orwell 19

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• 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.

  David Rockefeller

  Father, Taken, Son

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

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• Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?

  Helen Rowland

  Girl, Flirty, Sweet Love

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.45, Lulu.com

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• In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

  Bertrand Russell

  Leadership, Thank You, Thankful

  "Bertrand Russell's Greatest Paradox was His Faith" by Dan Delzell, www.christianpost.com. November 4, 2011.

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• Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Religious, Jesus, Twilight

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• As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Gratitude, Science, Thoughtful

  Albert Schweitzer (1966). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”

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