#take for granted

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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There is so much that people take for granted. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#always #attention #brain #development #education

Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#classes #everybody #everything #gets #granted

There are too many countries where the values we take for granted in our civil servants simply do not exist. Seeing these values in action, applied with dedication by hardworking individuals, makes me proud to lead a service that is making life better for millions across Britain. ↗

— Gus O'Donnell

#action #applied #better #britain #civil

That's an interesting question. I would say that in general Americans know very little about the law. It's one of those things that most of us take for granted. ↗

— Christopher Darden

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Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. ↗

— Michael Ende

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Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places. ↗

— Charles de Lint

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Whenever I get frustrated, I tell myself, you could be working at a 7-Eleven right now, so never take for granted what you do for a living. ↗

— Shannen Doherty

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It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things. ↗

— Evan Davis

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