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• There are so many people who are conscientious and caring about others. I've spent time working in countries where I really noticed the absence of civic concern, care for other people. I've been in other countries where I feel a palpable, almost tooth-and-claw attitude between people - Machiavellian, me and mine. And you can take for granted being here, with all the bloviating and the media, on a day-to-day level, people in this country are really pretty concerned for each other.

  Edward Norton

  Country, Attitude, Caring

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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• It's always money no matter kind of budget you have, though, it forces you to be creative and not take anything for granted.

  Matthew Bonifacio

  Creative, Matter, Kind

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I get very excited when I wake up in the morning and I am just full of oxygen. I say that purposefully. I try not to take for granted how lucky we are to have life and breath and opportunity. Once we've got that, we can conquer anything. Truly, I get high on oxygen, and once I graduate from that, what really fulfills me is doing what I love. That, to me, is absolutely priceless.

  Debbi Fields

  Morning, Opportunity, Oxygen

  "Debbi Fields Talks The Importance Of Persistence And Staying Present In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2013.

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• I wasn't afraid of being poor; I rather took it for granted. I was good at getting by with very little. I couldn't imagine sacrificing my writing to anything else.

  Marge Piercy

  Writing, Sacrifice, Littles

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• 'Rights' are granted; 'duties' are enforced. To speak of rights and duties is to think in terms of authority.

  Laurance Labadie

  Thinking, Rights, Speak

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• The thought of a happiness that comes from outside the person, brings him sadness. But the recognition in the value of one's will and the freedom granted by its uplifting, brings great joy.

  Abraham Isaac Kook

  Uplifting, Sadness, Joy

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• The character of the landscape changes from hour to hour, day to day, season to season. Nothing of the earth can be taken for granted; you feel that Creation is going on in your sight. You see things in the high air that you do not see farther down in the lowlands. In the high country all objects bear upon you, and you touch hard upon the earth. From my home I can see the huge, billowing clouds; they draw close upon me and merge with my life.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Country, Taken, Character

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• What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.

  George Orwell

  Intellectual, Liberty, Matter

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• If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Association, Murder, Should

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• I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Special, World

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• In a real world, the one outside the rarified atmosphere where Popes meet Archbishops of Canterbury, people no longer care whether somebody is an Anglican or a Roman Catholic. They already take it for granted that being a "believer" is more important than having a denominational name-tag any day of the week.

  Tom Harpur

  Real, Names, People

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• I was not a good doctor, my studies had been too rapid, my hospital training too short, but there is not the slightest doubt that I was a successful doctor. What is the secret of success? To inspire confidence. What is confidence? ... I do not know, I only know that it cannot be acquired by book reading, nor by the bedside of our patients. It is a magic gift granted by birth-right to one man and denied to another. The doctor who possesses this gift can almost raise the dead

  Axel Munthe

  Book, Reading, Successful

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• We have all of us to some extent become inured to a culture where viciousness and depravity are simply taken for granted, like some hideous wallpaper we have lived with for years.

  Roger Kimball

  Taken, Years, Culture

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• I'm amazed at what I have taken for granted. How to truly take in our situation I don't know, but I wish I had started asking myself that question earlier than I did.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Taken, Wish, Asking

  "One of Obama’s Favorite Writers Redefines Spirituality". Interview with Gregory Barber, www.motherjones.com. October 25, 2015.

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• It may be that a free society... carries in itself the forces of its own destruction, that once freedom has been achieved it is taken for granted and ceases to be valued, and that the free growth of ideas which is the essence of a free society will bring about the destruction of the foundations on which it depends.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Taken, Essence, Ideas

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• Freedom is like health, it is taken for granted while one has it. One becomes aware of it when it has gone.

  Henry Wallich

  Taken, Taken For Granted, Gone

  Henry Christopher Wallich (1960). “The Cost of Freedom: Conservatism and Modern Capitalism”

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• Nine planets round the sun, only one does the sun embrace. Upon this watered one, so much we take for granted; So let us sleep outside tonight, lay down in our mother's arms, for here we can rest safely ... One sweet world around a star is spinning One sweet world And in her breath I'm swimming, and here we will rest in peace.

  Dave Matthews

  Mother, Sweet, Rest In Peace

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• Faith is not a question of basking in the certainty that there is a God and that God is taking care of us. Many of us are never granted this kind of assurance. Certitude is not the real substance of faith. Faith is a way of seeing things.

  Ronald Rolheiser

  Real, Way, Substance

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• When I was younger, the main struggle was to be a 'good writer.' Now I more or less take my writing abilities for granted, although this doesn't mean I always write well.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Struggle, Writing, Mean

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• I took a lot of things for granted - especially how I treated my body.

  Bo Jackson

  Body, Treated

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• We take life for granted, sleepwalking until a shattering event knocks us awake. Zen says, don't wait until the car accident, the cancer diagnosis, or the death of a loved one to get your priorities straight. Do it now.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

  Cancer, Car, Death Of A Loved One

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• Whatsoever then you have well in this world, when you recollect to have done any thing good, be very fearful about it, lest the prosperity granted you be your recompense for the same good. And when you behold poor men doing any thing blameably, fear not, seeing that perhaps those whom the remains of the slightest iniquity defiles, the fire of honesty cleanses.

  Pope Gregory I

  Honesty, Men, Fire

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• All peoples must be respected, and they must all be granted the same rights.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Rights

  "We Are Neither Obstinate nor Gullible". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. April 10, 2009.

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• I've been given a gift [musical talent] - don't misuse it. I spent a lot of time just wasting that talent, not treasuring it, not valuing it, not respecting it, just taking it for granted. That was a hard lesson to learn. It doesn't come for free. Don't do that. Treasure it, respect it, treat it as a responsibility that you've been given, and enjoy the hell out of it.

  David Crosby

  Responsibility, Musical, Treasure

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me.

  Irakli Okruashvili

  Germany, Would Be, Asylums

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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