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• I grew up in a church-going family, a very sort of ordinary, middle-of-the-road Anglican family where nobody really talked about personal Christian experience. It was just sort of assumed like an awful lot of things in the 1950's were just sort of taken for granted.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Taken, Church

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• Intellectual freedom means the right to re-examine much that has been long taken for granted. A free man must be a reasoning man, and he must dare doubt what a legislative or electoral majority may most passionately assert.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Taken, Mean, Men

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• It was when I was on the set of Dead Poets Society.There was actor,his name was Norman Lloyd. One day he took us all aside and said, "You guys don't even understand what a powerful experience you're having. You don't really understand what a gift this is." We were going, "What does he mean?" It was that really wonderful opportunities aren't to be taken for granted. I often found that it had embedded itself in my memory.

  Ethan Hawke

  Memories, Powerful, Taken

  "Ethan Hawke on ‘Regression’, ‘The Magnificent Seven’, and Playing a Space Pimp in ‘Valerian’" by Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 4, 2016.

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• Stillness empowers. Being able to detach from all external stimulants - social media, social engagements, TV, alcohol, food, etc. - and face our own silence is an enormous luxury that should not be taken for granted. The most rewarding moments in my life have stemmed from such stillness.

  Romany Malco

  Taken, Media, Luxury

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• [T]he presence of feminism in our lives is taken for granted. For our generation, feminism is like fluoride. We scarcely notice we have it - it's simply in the water.

  Amy Richards

  Taken, Our Generation, Water

  Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards (2010). “Manifesta [10th Anniversary Edition]: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future”, p.17, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess, I'm afraid for myself ... the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting so I live every moment with terrible intensity. Last night, driving back from Boston, I lay back in the car and let the colored lights come at me, the music from the radio, the reflection of the guy driving. It all flowed over me with a screaming ache of pain ... remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted. When you feel that this may be the good-bye, the last time, it hits you harder.

  Sylvia Plath

  Pain, Taken, Bye

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• I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  Taken, Justice, Want

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• In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.

  Wade Boggs

  Baseball, Taken, Games

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• I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Country, Taken, Order

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• Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.

  Sylvia Plath

  Life, Memories, Taken

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.14, Anchor

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• That did it. I'd gone through a lot in the past few days. Everyone I met seemed to want a piece of me: djinn, magicians, humans...it made no difference.I'd been summoned, manhandled, shot at, captured, constricted, bossed about and generally taken for granted. And now, to cap it all, this bloke is joining in too, when all I'd been doing was quietly trying to kill him.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Taken, Past, Joining In

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• So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.

  Niall Ferguson

  Taken, Today, West

  "Niall Ferguson: 'Westerners Don't Understand How Vulnerable Freedom Is'". Interview with William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2011.

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• Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by everyone on faith, without any discussion or doubts. Why must people do this?

  Leo Tolstoy

  Religious, Taken, Acceptance

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

  Norman Borlaug

  Taken, Leader, Population

  Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”

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• All the things I thought I was - simple and plain and sometime funny - are very small words. They do not begin to describe me. They do not begin to express what is inside of me. I have value, and I have worth. I cannot be replaced like old shoes or taken for granted like tap water.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Taken, Simple, Shoes

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• There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Taken, World, Granted

  Robert Anton Wilson (1991). “The Widow's Son”, Roc

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• Listen to me: everything you think you know, every relationship you've ever taken for granted, every plan or possibility you've ever hatched, every conceit or endeavor you've ever concocted, can be stripped from you in an instant. Sooner or later, it will happen. So prepare yourself. Be ready not to be ready. Be ready to be brought to your knees and beaten to dust. Because no stable foundation, no act of will, no force of cautious habit will save you from this fact: nothing is indestructible.

  Jonathan Evison

  Taken, Thinking, Dust

  Jonathan Evison (2013). “The Fundamentals of Caring”, p.221, Head of Zeus

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• We humans have existed in our present form for about a hundred thousand years. I believe that if during this time the human mind had been primarily controlled by anger and hatred, our overall population would have decreased. But today, despite all our wars, we find that the human population is greater than ever. This clearly indicates to me that love and compassion predominate in the world. And this is why unpleasant events are "news"; compassionate activities are so much a part of daily life that they are taken for granted and , therefore, largely ignored.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, War, Believe

  "Dzogchen: Heart Essence of the Great Perfection" by Dalai Lama, Snow Lion Publications, 2004.

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• It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.

  Thomas Paine

  Taken, Mean, Rights

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine”

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• To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.

  Bill Bryson

  Life, Summer, Travel

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• The luxury of today is the necessity of tomorrow. Every advance first comes into being as the luxury of a few rich people, only to become, after a time, an indispensable necessity taken for granted by everyone. Luxury consumption provides industry with the stimulus to discover and introduce new, things. It is one of the dynamic factors in our economy. To it we owe the progressive innovations by which the standard of living of all strata of the population has been gradually raised.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Taken, Luxury, People

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.19, VM eBooks

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• No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

  Susan Sontag

  Pain, Taken, People

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.7, Macmillan

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• Condiments are like old friends - highly thought of, but often taken for granted.

  Marilyn Kaytor

  Food, Taken, Cooking

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• Why is it taken for granted that women should earn less than men? No! They have the same rights.

  Pope Francis

  Taken, Men, Rights

  Pope Francis (2015). “On the Family”, p.40, Ignatius Press

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• Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

  Aldous Huxley

  Thankful, Gratitude, Appreciation

  Themes and Variations (1950) "Variations on a Philosopher"

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