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One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation. ↗

— Frederic William Farrar

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Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves. ↗

— Theodor Herzl

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We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted. ↗

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

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The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

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Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate. ↗

— Debra Winger

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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted. ↗

— Mario Andretti

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All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

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The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted. ↗

— Danny Boyle

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