#granted

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#day #domesticated #foresee #granted #i

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#days #depth #fear #gives #granted

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#always #attention #brain #development #education

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#demanded #granted #health #i #love

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#change #consequently #continual #created #each

This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution. ↗

— Bill Maher

#appear #been #constitution #does #experience

Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#classes #everybody #everything #gets #granted

There are too many countries where the values we take for granted in our civil servants simply do not exist. Seeing these values in action, applied with dedication by hardworking individuals, makes me proud to lead a service that is making life better for millions across Britain. ↗

— Gus O'Donnell

#action #applied #better #britain #civil

Whenever I get frustrated, I tell myself, you could be working at a 7-Eleven right now, so never take for granted what you do for a living. ↗

— Shannen Doherty

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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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