Listen carefully and then take it for granted that the exact opposite will happen.
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"We, as Americans, take it for granted that we've been so secure all this time, " Damerow said.
Today we take it for granted that Italy and Austria will not come to blows, nor will Britain and Russia.
Most Indian business is still in the hands of family firms, and most people take it for granted that this will continue.
Many parents take it for granted that they should save for college but there are actually some very valid reasons not to.
"People here take it for granted that the healthy ones help the weaker, " says Nakamoto Yoshinori, an official with the Social Welfare Council.
Or perhaps some governments deliberately keep wages low because they take it for granted that customs inspectors and driving-licence clerks will supplement their official pay.
It's become a kind of staple, we almost take it for granted that you have a mouth with the lips moving as part of an advert.
We take it for granted that Gen Y or Millennials grew up on social media, so they instantly know how to use it for professional purposes.
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Although most Americans take it for granted that they receive health insurance through the workplace, this is an artifact of federal tax rules from World War II.
We in the U.S. and other developed countries take it for granted that one can set up a lawful business in a matter of days or weeks.
"When he hits the ball hard, even though he knows it's probably out of the ballpark, he doesn't take it for granted that it is out of the ballpark, " Johnson said.
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Both books deplore the unchecked triumph of market forces, as if the state evaporated when the Berlin Wall came down. (It didn't: look at your pay-slip.) Both, rejecting without comment a basic tenet of economics, take it for granted that when countries trade, some at least of them must lose the question being whether all will lose, or just America.
And, we might take it for granted today, but it is only very recently that the companies who survived the dot-com bust changed the way we communicate with others, book travel plans and buy products.
There is a growing recognition that the old rich world cannot take its prosperity for granted that it will be overtaken by hungrier powers if it fails to deal with its structural problems.
Because when you watch a movie, you are so unaware of what's been going on behind the scenes, that you take it for granted.
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And we take this for granted now, but it is something that I think all the members of the Cabinet who participated are extremely proud of.
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Ironically, some of the worst personal branding failures are Millennials, who have grown up with so much new and innovative social technology that they take it for granted rather than exploiting their familiarity with it.
Gravity determines so much in our lives that we usually take it for granted, without giving it much thought unless, of course, one plans to take a tourist ride to the space station.
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It supports processes that we all often take for granted, such as air quality, climate regulation, water purification, parasite and disease control, pollination and the prevention of erosion.
But it is also the case that one cannot take for granted that even parks in the best neighborhoods will be well-maintained.
France is equally keen to show military leadership, especially now that it cannot take Germany's followership for granted in other areas.
Here in the United States we are so blessed with so many freedoms that it becomes almost easy to take it for granted.
"Whenever I talk about someone in hip-hop, I kind of have to take for granted that they're going to see it, " he says.
Critically, we need the team to recognise what it took to put ourselves in that position and not to take that for granted.
Weiss said he hopes that Moscone is also remembered as a mayor who embraced diversity at a time when it was unconventional even though it's something that, today, many San Franciscans take for granted.
Okay, okay, we're making good use of sarcastic italics, but we do have a point: we take such things for granted to the point where it might not have occurred to naysayers that just being able to minimize a window could make an operating system more user-friendly.
It also mutes somewhat the Republican argument that the Democrats take the black vote for granted.
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. (Applause.) The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans.
It has not helped that he has seemed to take the chief executive's job for granted failing to elaborate policies, take part in debates or do anything much at all.
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