"The biggest thing I have learned is you can't take anything for granted. You have to work as hard as you can every night, regardless."
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"There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted."
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"I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically."
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"The time for your labor has been granted."
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"I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them."
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"I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood."
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"Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so."
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"My broad sense of this is that authors like Smil really paint the clear picture, and once you see that, it's kind of Oh, of course. That's such a primal thing to all these physical services that we take for granted."
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"We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion."
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"It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete."
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"I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied."
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"Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely."
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"I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted."
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"The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved."
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"Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment."
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"Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it."
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"You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept."
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"A favor is half granted, when graciously refused."
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"I have found a much greater appreciation of Buddhism because I couldn't take it for granted here in exile."
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"We can lose so much of what we've gained in terms of the kind of democratic freedoms and market-based economies and prosperity that we've come to take for granted."
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