Taken For Granted Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Thankful

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• When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Gratitude, Skulls, Thankfulness

  "Noted with pleasure". The New York Times Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1984.

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• It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to.

  Alex Grey

  Trying, Alive, Taking Things For Granted

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• It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

  Dick Cheney

  Veterans Day, Freedom, Taken

  "Painkiller Deathstreak" by Nicholson Baker, www.newyorker.com. August 9, 2010.

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• When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Gratitude, Live Life, Grateful

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• I try to encourage people to think for themselves, to question standard assumptions... Don't take assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a skeptical attitude toward anything that is conventional wisdom. Make it justify itself. It usually can't. Be willing to ask questions about what is taken for granted. Try to think things through for yourself.

  Noam Chomsky

  Wisdom, Attitude, Taken

  Institute Professor Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky, John Junkerman, Takei Masakazu (2015). “Power and Terror: Conflict, Hegemony, and the Rule of Force”, p.5, Routledge

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