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" As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day. "

Ginny Brown-Waite

" At least in the West, politicians, corporations and media moguls can no longer take for granted their power to control the public discourse - and have it go unchallenged. "

" Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised. "

Shoshana Zuboff

" Communication is something we all take for granted. "

Miriam Margolyes

" Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to. "

" 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. "

" Few states, they have the international borders, state borders; in India, there is so much diversity in system. Unity in diversity is our system, so therefore, you cannot take for granted, whatever you do. "

Mamata Banerjee

" Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world. "

Peter Mandelson

" Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio. "

" How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past. "

David Wilkerson

" I couldn't even imagine not being able to take long, hot showers or wear makeup whenever I wanted or shave my underarms. There are certain things people take for granted. "

" I feel really privileged that I've been able to be an activist and a musician for over 20 years now, and I've always been able to say whatever I want. I think that's something we Americans really take for granted, but it's a big deal, and it's not something most people in the world are able to do. "

" I find that the kinds of music I'm drawn to are those that a lot of people take for granted. "

" 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. "

" I'm a lucky guy. I don't take for granted, for one minute, what I do. "

" I never had a huge circle of friends, so I really just tried to cherish and not take for granted the close friends I did have, who were really supportive and understanding. "

" I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me. "

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

" I've been lucky. I don't for a minute take for granted the good fortune I have had. You don't like to get ideas above your station, especially a boy from the south side of Glasgow. "

" I was working in email in the early days in the late '80s, and people weren't using electronic communications at all in the way we take for granted today. "

" I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life. "

" Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor's monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted. "

" Life is a precious gift - a gift we often take for granted until it is threatened. "

" Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider. "

" Sight is something you take for granted until you think you might lose it. "

" Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than the person that's closest to us. And you just gotta remember not to take for granted that person that's closest to you. "

Michael Douglas

" Standing center stage in the six foot circle of wood cut from the stage of the Ryman is something I never take for granted. The history and legacy of that circle is awe-inspiring. "

" 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

" That's one thing you Americans take for granted, you know? That you can grow up, you know, not so good circumstances, and you can move. Just because you are born in rural Arkansas, whatever, that doesn't define who you are. "

" The 20th century shows that the form of government that we take for granted, a constitutional democratic republic with checks and balances and a rule of law - that form of government is usually temporary. "

Timothy D. Snyder

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