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- Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it - life begins in slime and ends in intelligence - whereas traditional cultures…
- I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.
- In my town, I had only one adult American male role model: my father. I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what…
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me. — Sean Astin
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider. — Francis Bacon
- To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously… — Arnold Bennett
- The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state. — Buffalo Bill
- In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day,… — Wade Boggs
- One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered… — Edward de Bono
- All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. — Elizabeth Bowen
- The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take… — Danny Boyle