| "It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you." »M. Grundler |
| "If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft." »Publilius Syrus |
| "The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once." »Demosthenes |
| "Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted." »Aldous Huxley |
| "If the Vikings were around today, they would probably be amazed at how much glow-in-the-dark stuff we have, and how we take so much of it for granted." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins." »Albert Schweitzer |
| "When I think back on all the blessings I have been given in my life, I can't think of a single one, unless you count that rattlesnake that granted me all those wishes." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider." »Francis Bacon |
| "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 |
| "The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence." »U.S. vs Cruikshan |
| "In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility-I welcome it." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "You are amazing. You are a shooting star. I will follow you forever no distance is too far. Never take for granted your abilty to fly. At times stop and rest, but quickly get back up before your dreams pass you by." »Eric Pio |
| "Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear." »Lois McMaster Bujold |
| "I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." »Voltaire |
| "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 |
| "It was a world which granted privileges to some and imposed prohibitions on others...Endowed with strength and eager to learn, one had to drag himself in a narrow prison cell when he could see an open field, a vast horizon in the distance; when he could feel the beatings of a heart; and when he believed himself entitled to enjoy the beauty of a dream." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal |
| "Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. for us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important that television." »Aldo Leopold |
| "Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible benefit for which you may be eligible after the destruction of your body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure your receiving said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen." »Roger Zelazny |
| "At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted." »Eric Idle |
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