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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. -- Aldous Huxley
I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don't want to be here or something like that. -- Jason Ritter
It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door. -- David Hackworth
Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted. -- Paula Abdul
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler. -- Franz Kafka
We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. -- John Desmond Bernal
I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected. -- Annie Leibovitz
Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered -- Robert A. Dahl
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place. -- Winston Churchill
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life. -- Joyce Brothers
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
I try and take everyone's ideals, common morals, flip them around, make people look at them differently, question them, so that you're not always taking things for granted. -- Marilyn Manson
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles. -- Red Skelton
The thing that sets Mars apart is that it is the one planet that is enough like Earth that you can imagine life possibly once having taken hold there. -- Steven Squyres
I think people in England take things for granted, we complain about our NHS system and yes it's not perfect but believe me it's far better than what they've got here. -- Alesha Dixon
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
I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be. -- Robin Gibb
You've always got to work to your highest ability level. When times are great and restaurants are jamming, that's when some restaurants get sloppy and take things for granted. Never take things for granted. -- Michael Symon
We don't really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we've been taken for granted. -- Tom Petty
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
Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly worry to come between us and our obstinate, indignant, defiant exultation, we are weakening our genius for life. -- John Cowper Powys
One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity. -- Edward de Bono
I think that if you, as a comedian, are trying to be in people's face, then you've got to come up with new stuff every year. We're in a mass consumption phase where people take things for granted and want things to be instant when these are not things that can be instant. -- Keenen Ivory Wayans
Around every corner is another gift waiting to surprise us, and it will surprise us if we can achieve control over our natural tendencies to make comparisons [to things that are better rather than things that are worse], to take things for granted [rather than imagining how much worse things would be if they weren't there and so feeling grateful], and to feel entitled! -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Say a child raises this beautiful beet. It's going to give her a sense of ownership, and that changes everything. You stop taking things for granted; you become less wasteful. -- David Chang
Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted. -- Max Lerner
Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio. -- Melinda Gates

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