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"Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four. If granted, all else follows." »George Orwell
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"It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you." »M. Grundler
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"If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft." »Publilius Syrus
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"There is no more powerful form of rejection than taking someone for granted." »Tom Zegan
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted." »Aldous Huxley
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"As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins." »Albert Schweitzer
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"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." »Voltaire
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"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it." »Voltaire
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"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
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"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
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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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"To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed." »Samuel Johnson
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead." »Norbert Wiener
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"The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted." »Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason
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"In all things it is a good idea to hang a question mark now and then on the things we have 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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"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
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"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
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"How come the most natural things in the world are the most difficult to come by....it is the most natural,beautiful, self-enhancing and intoxicatingly breathtaking acts of nature that we humans take for granted at times-as our complexities and complicated human minds do not allow us to act as naturally as we were born to,but turn peace into war,love into suffering,pleasure into pain and the natural into the forgotten!" »anonymous
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"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
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"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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"What do I do?
I am so sick of being alone.
Not having someone else who can share my company.
No one to go to when I’m alone or feeling down.
Everyone else has had someone at one point.
Felt the joy of another human’s touch.
But not I.
for I have yet to feel the warm embrace of the opposite sex.
Still with no idea what a simple kiss is like.
And yet there are others who partake in far greater bounties than I can ever imagine.
Worse yet, they lack intelligence and haven’t the slightest idea what they have.
They take things for granted and don’t have a care in the world.
But it is all fine in the end.
for there is an eternal balance to everything that happens.
They may have their forbidden fruit, but it is that very thing that has poisoned their minds and made them oblivious to the truths of life.
The hidden wonders that can only be learned over time.
Between the two I prefer my scenario.
I may miss out on wonderful bounties now, but they become available to everyone eventually.
And I am very patient.
Besides, by waiting just a little longer I can understand things now that will take them years to even think of.
I count myself lucky.
If not in society’s eye but in my eye.
Because I know that in the future everything will work out for the better.
Such is the way of things to always have a balance.
One day I will be with that person.
That one special someone to share my life and happiness with.
So, what do I do?
Well, I am going to wait.
Not forever, but for that opportune time when I know I will be able to change everything.
I will wait and endure the status quo to one day experience the balance.
I have told you what I will do.
Now, what will you do?
" »Anonymous
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| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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