#taken for granted

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#composition #country #ethnic #feeling #granted

The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#created #granted #must #popular #taken

The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted. ↗

— Jan Peter Balkenende

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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

#i #injustice #just #justice #pervasive

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

#day #enjoyed #every #every day #game

As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby. ↗

— Susan Oliver

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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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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

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The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans. ↗

— Dominique de Villepin

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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

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