"A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good."
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"Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity."
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"Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted."
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"You never can take for granted that you have a job."
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"You can never say you're big - I don't think you can ever take anything like that for granted."
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"I'm sorry if I took some things for granted, I'm sorry for the chains I put on you. But more than anything, I'm sorry for myself for living without you."
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"Many words have been granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are holy: "I will it!"
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"You just can't take a day for granted. We had to work really hard for anything, and so that's been instilled in me. And I don't look at myself as better than anybody else, because in an instant everything can change."
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"His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything."
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"The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters."
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"God has granted me today a very particular fondness for requesting of Him that same virtue of ever choosing the worst and that which is contrary to my own liking."
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"You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of."
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"I live life and I don't take it for granted."
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"I don't take any relationships for granted and I won't ever again. I just enjoy life."
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"I don't take any day for granted anymore."
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"I guess the main thing is, you unconsciously take things for granted, and you think the audience is with you, because you're with yourself."
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"I think that there is generally less of a community and that the fragmentation of the left is a symptom. I think that it is less and less possible to take for granted certain cultural references."
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"Whenever you get involved with talking about rights, you're talking about being a citizen. You're talking about being a citizen in capitalism; you're talking about what rights are granted to what identities, under what laws, and all that is a big mix. Marriage is, among many other things, a formality to channel capital through a family. And that's why the big DOMA lawsuit was about paying too many taxes! "I wouldn't have had to pay all these taxes if Theodora had been Theo" - that was the big tagline. It's all about protecting assets."
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"I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God."
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"It was granted to me alone to discover all the new phenomena in the sky and nothing to anybody else. This is the truth which neither envy nor malice can supress."
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