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It was more or less taken for granted that when my schooling was done I'd go and live with them on their island and it'd be happy holidays every day
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As much as she had fought it, Penelope found herself silently mourning the past she had taken for granted
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Things they had taken for granted, things they had hardly noticed
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usually taken for granted, as in:
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Something he’d seen so many times and taken for granted was now something that commanded his full attention
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Routine, but never taken for granted
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your head over and over in the Academy: space was never to be taken for granted; it could be
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Almost as if he was watching himself and at the same time feeling the reality of his imagined thoughts, William in his mind acted out exactly what he would do right at that moment if he had simple conveniences that once were taken for granted
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I am simply exaggerating to make a point, which is this: where or at what point along the evolutionary dominance of African American Athletes become completely taken for granted that aspiring White Athletes need no longer apply?
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Hilderich was seemingly more humorous than before, his words clearly not to be taken for granted, but Amonas had to admit the fact that this strange sun and taxing climate would make their efforts even more strained and difficult than he had calculated
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Gone also was his greatest source of the advice that he had taken for granted would always be there
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of all the luxuries I had taken for granted (such as multiple
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It is not often that one person is endowed with the abilities to express himself in words and colors, to have a winning personality, and to have a great appreciation of the beauties of nature which so often are taken for granted
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A wife, my darling, is one of those fine truths a man does take for granted, And this, simply love which can be taken for granted, Forever and ever, Is what I share with you
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Being taken for granted is asking a lot, and except for weekends during this time, I wasn’t much of a husband or a father
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way it was taken for granted that everything would go
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Effective teamwork can be a quality that’s often taken for granted, but teams come together in different ways
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Nowhere could he find the shining love he’d taken for granted
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for granted, but ironically enough, far too much is often taken for granted
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What the…! Why and how had Mary taken for granted
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a way that it’s taken for granted that the reader is going to order
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Soon the impact of the news died down and it was all taken for granted in the busy household
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taken for granted and not enjoyed nearly so much as they are when a bit of real y
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accomplishment, but it is soon taken for granted and ceases to be a cause for
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Nothing could be taken for granted
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Let him cool his ardour for a bit and make him ponder whether his expectations weren’t too high and her consent perhaps mistakenly taken for granted
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Whence the power to accomplish all this? The physical things can be taken for granted, but the Master has well said, "Man cannot live by bread alone
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Salvation should be taken for granted by those who believe in the fatherhood of God
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From her earliest memory Maureen had been taken for granted
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and activities taken for granted by children of developed
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Anthea now spoke so seldom that it was as if she had returned to the days of her affliction, but to my distress, I found that the mysterious silent communication which we had shared- had in fact almost taken for granted in those days- was now gone
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All of the principles she had taken for granted in western democracy, all of its
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Through the next three innings, Chance pitched a shutout; yielding his feisty determination to prove Coach Ryan's confidence in him wouldn't be taken for granted
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saw a quality I had completely taken for granted
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Higher energies, which are positive co-creation energies, are not operational when taken for granted
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Nothing was taken for granted as being safe and
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Consciousness is a mystery and a miracle that should not be taken for granted and it is a travesty that people fill their lives with selfish craving rather than really seeing that just 1 second of consciousness is the greatest most exquisite and precious possession of all in the entire universe
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However, it seems that both the Canadian public, especially in the francophone province of Quebec, and the Canadian government have grown increasingly tired of being taken for granted by London and by being treated as mere ‘colonials’ by the British high classes
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An uneducated girl from a poor family, she had taken for granted the authority of the nobility and of the King to do as they wished all her life
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taken for granted but rarely used for what it really is – research and analysis
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It was another telling reminder that the Indian voter cannot be taken for granted
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But voters in Amethi are no different to their peers elsewhere and they can no longer be taken for granted by promises without delivery
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Graham asked if that wasn’t taken for granted bearing in mind everything that had happened but Danny said the band’s constitution stated they couldn’t split unless the band voted for it
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It was a sense of camaraderie between them all, a friendship that had been taken for granted up until recently
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The banging is background noise to her thoughts, so much taken for granted that it takes Marlie a moment to realize the timbre has changed
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"Hafiz, do you honestly love me? Or are you just being capricious because you lost something that you've taken for granted all this time?" She interrogated
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Down there they had taken for granted that he was a relation of Jim's, the kind of relative who in a man's life appears only three times, the last of which is his funeral; here in Eaton Terrace they were immediately sure he was not, anyhow, that, because for relatives who only appear those three times a girl's face doesn't change in a flash from gentle politeness to tremulous, shining life
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Somehow I had missed out on something in the past that was taken for granted at this stage and not taught anymore
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Sights, sounds, and smells he'd taken for granted before, but now he drank them in like a parched man who'd stumbled upon a stream
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It had been a ritual, even as teenagers, and something we’d taken for granted until it was too late
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It is a Law that is so simple, so taken for granted: that nobody ever has thought to state it formally as a Universal Law, not just as a Law of Physics for moving physical objects
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Just as we ignore the air we live in as something taken for granted which we travel through
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The sixth extremity of our hand is our forearm… which is right in front of our nose, and taken for granted, and not included
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By examining anything that is taken for granted, you run into a resistance against anything new or strange, or different, or alien
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Then as years pass it becomes normal, it all becomes taken for granted
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Then the most important laws would no longer be taken for granted
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Regardless of the lip service environmentalists spout, waste is a part of every-day life on so many levels and in so many ways, it is so normalized and taken for granted; that it is not even an issue except on documentary films
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This process of how dysfunctional corruption becomes normalized in society, as a way of life that is taken for granted, has never changed
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Study what is unspoken and taken for granted
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They began to feel an instinctively resentment against the normalized brutality they had taken for granted all of their lives
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Suddenly what I had taken for granted amazed me, frightened me
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So: ugly-boring starkness and deadness becomes normal, taken for granted
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Once you are flooded with recognition and adulation and are worshipped by millions: then the logic of you having millions more dollars than your worshippers becomes completely natural and taken for granted
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It was merely taken for granted
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Western culture has taken for granted the unspoken fact that it grows larger every second
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It is taken for granted
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Until so many Europeans became well-off and greedy: that poor Europeans followed their examples… and the moral bar of normality was lowered to make higher levels of greed acceptable, and eventually taken for granted
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Since this liquid substance is the basic vehicle for literally all of the dynamic balancing of life, and its ecosystems: the natural act of washing or cleaning in a natural eco- system is taken for granted
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Throwing away plastic bottles; is taken for granted
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It becomes taken for granted
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That is the fatal spiritual killer that makes people throw up their hands and say: ‘what’s the use in asking questions? What’s the use in fighting city hall? What’s the use in struggling or complaining about unfairness or injustice?’ Then the injustices of others is cynically taken for granted, and those who rail against the system are jeered at by others as naïve fools
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and taken for granted, but they are real
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It is a perfect example what is unspoken, what is assumed, what is never mentioned in public, what is taken for granted
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life he had always taken for granted
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“Do not worry about it now, for there are many things that you have taken for granted,
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I talked about a lot of things as I sought to fill the curiosity she had as one who had never seen the common things that I had so often just taken for granted
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The body detoxification process was often being taken for granted perhaps because it was not something that we see or something that we considered to be just natural and therefore, automatic
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Credit cards can really be feasible where it serve its purpose, but can also do more harm than good if misused and taken for granted
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Are You Being Taken for Granted or Unappreciated In Your Relationship
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"My friends," I said, "to a question couched in these terms, our answer can be taken for granted
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No opportunity was to be overlooked, nothing taken for granted
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They were wire-wound steel cannon, yes, yet they were little more advanced in terms of accuracy than those of Old Earth’s mid-nineteenth-century rifled guns, with none of the advanced fire control systems a later age would have taken for granted
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That wasn’t something he could have taken for granted from all of his subordinates, unfortunately
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He was also fortunate that despite the rote nature of their training, the supernatural explanation of physical processes, and the total absence of the sort of medical technology the Federation—or even pre-space Old Earth—had taken for granted, Pasqualate surgeons were very good
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In such buildings England abounded, and, in the last decade of their grandeur, Englishmen seemed for the first time to become conscious of what before was taken for granted, and to salute their achievement at the moment of extinction
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That such a distinction is a useful one is generally taken for granted
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It might be taken for granted that United States government securities are an investment medium, while the common stock, say, of Radio Corporation of America—which between 1931 and 1935 had neither dividends, earnings, nor tangible assets behind it—must certainly be a speculation
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From the standpoint of fixed-value investment, nothing of importance may be taken for granted
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Formerly it was taken for granted that the investment bankers who floated the issue would organize a protective committee in the event of default
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That nothing can be taken for granted in security analysis is shown by the strange case of American Can, which until 1937 had failed to reveal details of its depreciation policy to its shareholders
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When a wide difference appears, it should not be taken for granted that one property is unduly conservative or the other not conservative enough, but a presumption to this effect does arise, and the question should be investigated as thoroughly as possible
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Nora had somehow accepted that she wasn’t going to see her children grow up, or anything else the two of them had laughed and dreamed about, and always taken for granted
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While he takes another bite, he stands there, looking at the tree, thinking about how much he’s taken for granted
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It can be taken for granted that large accounting firms are going to press managements, which are responsible for preparing the financial statements reviewed by auditors, to make any negative disclosures that are admissions against interest
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As Fortune magazine declared, “Boone’s once revolutionary ideas [are] so completely taken for granted that they have become linchpins of the economy
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because it has been taken for granted; but I
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Now it would be certainly taken for granted that I was revenging myself on Versilov
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I had taken for granted that he would dissemble, but he had begun upon it with such bluntnesf
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Whereupon it is taken for granted that he is a sectarian, and therefore misunderstands Christianity; in other words, that he differs from the priests paid by the State
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It is taken for granted that what is meant by the word beauty is known and understood by every one