#granted

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off. ↗

— Jack Kemp

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I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary. ↗

— Vanessa Kerry

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I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#been #denied #granted #i #i am

Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her - when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her? ↗

— Helen Rowland

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Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

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I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#crystallize #different #economy #environment #granted

Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question. ↗

— Peter Straub

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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

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Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides. ↗

— John Raleigh Mott

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It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft. ↗

— James Houston

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