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• We take fabulousness for granted sometimes. We forget what hard work it is. Indeed, when you consider the grueling hours your average celebrity puts in on the movie set and in the recording studio, when you think of them returning to their mansions so dead tired their drivers have to help them out of the car, well, it just makes you want to cry.

  Leonard Pitts

  Hard Work, Tired, Thinking

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• Look at everything upside down.Take absolutely nothing for granted.

  Dick Francis

  Looks, Upside Down, Absolutely Nothing

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• Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Prayer, Essence

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they take it for granted that the Bible is true, and that it is good; they permit themselves not to doubt of it, and they carry the ideas they form of the benevolence of the Almighty to the book which they have been taught to believe was written by his authority. Good heavens! It is quite another thing; it is a book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy.

  Thomas Paine

  Lying, Believe, Book

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.52, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Film acting would be about 80 percent better than it has been lately if actors did their homework, if they didn't have egos that took the size of their talent for granted.

  Rod Steiger

  Ego, Acting, Would Be

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• The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession

  Henry Adams

  Taken, Reform, Details

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1490, Open Road Media

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• The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Character, Fiction, Scenery

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• In the whole history of capitalism, no one has been able to establish a coercive monopoly by means of competition in a free market...Every single coercive monopoly that exists or ever has existed...was created and made possible only by an act of government...which granted special privileges (not obtainable in a free market) to a man or a group of men, and forbade all others to enter that particular field.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Mean, Men, Competition

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• When the people of a nation stop communicating, they lose the common purpose that made them great. Their cities become ghost towns. People live aimlessly because they have no cause for which they are willing to die. The cry of the populace is 'Just leave me alone'. Perhaps the ultimate hell is that the wish will be granted. It is not unlikely that our own nation will collapse not through an explosive roar, but through a deafening silence. This silence must be broken in our generation. We may never get another chance.

  Jeff Myers

  Cities, Common Purpose, Our Generation

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• The welfare state destroys the market mechanisms - lessens free choice and willing exchange. Simultaneously creating unnatural specializations, it must, granted statism's premise, resort to welfarism; that is, it must assume the responsibility for the people's welfare: their employment, their old age, their income, and the like. As this is done, man loses his wholeness; he is dispossessed of responsibility for self, the very essence of his manhood. The more dependent he becomes, the less dependable!

  Leonard Read

  Responsibility, Men, Essence

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• The market performs miracles so routinely that we take it for granted. Supermarkets provide 30,000 choices at rock-bottom prices. We take it for granted that when we stick a piece of plastic in a wall, cash will come out; that when we give the same plastic to a stranger, he will rent us a car, and the next month, Visa will have the accounting correct to the penny. By contrast, "experts" in government can't even count the vote accurately.

  John Stossel

  Wall, Rocks, Government

  "Market Magic: Competition Polices Companies, and It Sure Beats Regulation and Lawyers" by John Stossel, www.abcnews.go.com. April 16, 2008.

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• Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment. It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Doe, Unemployment, Easier

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• Socialistic practices are now so ingrained in our thinking, so customary, so much a part of our mores, that we take them for granted.

  Leonard Read

  Thinking, Practice

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• Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom and foresight after taking for granted the existence of individual imbecility and improvidence.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Expectations, Assuming, Individual

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• We have been given the trust and goodwill of New Zealanders. I do not take that trust for granted, and I never will.

  John Key

  Given, Goodwill, Has Beens

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

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• I think, now, younger generations do take that for granted in a lot of ways. I don't think that takes away from the struggle of identity and what that is. But the struggle for identity is everybody's struggle. No matter what it is.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Struggle, Thinking, Identity

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.

  Richard Ford

  Long, Trying, Way

  Richard Ford (2013). “Canada”, p.248, A&C Black

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• The truth of literature and art has always been granted (if it was granted at all) as one of a "higher" order, which should not and indeed did not disturb the order of business. What has changed in the contemporary period is the difference between the two orders and their truths. The absorbent power of society depletes the artistic dimension by assimilating its antagonistic contents. In the realm of culture, the new totalitarianism manifests itself precisely in a harmonizing pluralism, where the most contradictory works and truths peacefully coexist in indifference.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Art, Order, Two

  "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (pp. 60-61), 1964.

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• Most of us were not afraid of death, only of the act of dying; and there were times when we overcame even this fear. At such moments we were free-men without shadows, dismissed from the ranks of the mortal; it was the most complete experience of freedom that can be granted a man.

  Arthur Koestler

  Men, Shadow, Dying

  Arthur Koestler (2011). “Dialogue with Death: The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War”, p.204, University of Chicago Press

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• The richest treasure God has for you are the people in your life. Give thanks and don't take them for granted.

  Kevin DeYoung

  People, Giving, Treasure

  Twitter post from Jun 11, 2015

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• We are so accustomed to the miracle of private enterprise that we habitually take it for granted. But how does private industry solve the incredibly complex problem of turning out tens of thousands of different goods and services in the proportions in which they are wanted by the public? ... It solves these problems through the institutions of private property, competition, the free market, and the existence of money - through the interrelations of supply and demand, costs and prices, profits and losses.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Loss, Miracle, Competition

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• Nothing evades our attention as persistently as that which we take for granted... the decades roll on without even a suggestion that perhaps the whole matter must be rethought

  Marion Brady

  Suggestions, Attention, Matter

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• Maidana is a young, strong and tough competitor. He's a guy that I can't overlook. You can never take any fighter for granted because anything can happen.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Strong, Guy, Tough

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• I don't take anything for granted. I've been given extraordinary opportunities, I've also fought for extraordinary opportunities. So I don't believe you're ever just there in this golden moment. You probably always have to remind people that you're there, that you have something to offer, maybe something beyond what they could imagine for you.

  Anne Hathaway

  Believe, Opportunity, People

  "Anne Hathaway Talks About Her SAG Wardrobe Malfunction at Oscars Luncheon" by Shannon Vestal Robson, www.popsugar.com. February 4, 2013.

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• A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.

  Pliny the Elder

  Men, Evil, Chiefs

  Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, p.7, Delphi Classics

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