Quotes with taken-for-granted

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  • Bob Odenkirk The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people.
    Bob Odenkirk
    American actor, comedian, director, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • W. H. Auden The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bill Goldberg The cutthroat part of it is that professional wrestling has no union. There are a number of people that are taken advantage of on a daily basis.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Mark Caine The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
    Mark Caine
    American writer
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  • Buffalo Bill The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • George Washington The freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
    From George Washington to Officers of the Army, 15-03-1783
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Alice Walker The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Leon Trotsky The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Bruce Chatwin The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names taken at random from among the R's - told a story of exile, desolation, disillusion, and anxiety behind lace curtains.
    Bruce Chatwin
    English travel writer, novelist and journalist (1940 - 1989)
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  • Bernhard von Bulow The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated.
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Jean Baudrillard The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Carolyn Heilbrun The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
    Carolyn Heilbrun
    American academic and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • E. M. Forster The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Samuel Butler The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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