Today we take it for granted that Italy and Austria will not come to blows, nor will Britain and Russia.
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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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 often take it for granted, this cycle of life.
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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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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.
"We, as Americans, take it for granted that we've been so secure all this time, " Damerow said.
To be part of a team like this, we do not take it for granted.
The most remarkable quality of freedom is that it encompasses so many aspects of our lives and we, regrettably, sometimes take our freedom for granted, until we could unfortunately lose it.
It reconceives many words we take for granted -- such as power or defense.
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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Okay, so technology was pretty much crap compared to what we take for granted today, especially when it came to the computational power required to get to the moon and back.
It may look like we are close now, but it is very hard to win games at this level and we will take nothing for granted now with two home games coming next.
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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.
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.
As I pause to take stock of all the things I have to be grateful for, it certainly includes family, friends, health, and many other things we sometimes take for granted.
But we most certainly, as Rothkopf says, cannot afford to take it for granted.
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.
Laura Robinson, who led the session, said the exercises were designed to help people understand more about dementia and experience what it feels like to forget the everyday things we often take for granted.
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"We take soil for granted, but we need to pay more attention to it, " she says.
Here in the United States we are so blessed with so many freedoms that it becomes almost easy to take it 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 is a time to stop, look around, and think of all we take for granted.
Critically, we need the team to recognise what it took to put ourselves in that position and not to take that for granted.
It is not just our professional network that sustains us, and sometimes we can take those closest to us for granted.
Such a wake-up call will bring a greater understanding of what it means to be Cuban-American and what it means to be American -- and a much-needed appreciation for the freedoms we often take for granted in this country.
It was a very interesting discussion, which often related to how we seem to take what is around us for granted and how we also take for granted our ability to rearrange what we have to give pleasure to us and others.
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