#taken for granted

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

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

— Herbert Croly

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Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

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Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted. ↗

— Paula Abdul

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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

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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

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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

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A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

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