#granted

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it. ↗

— Voltaire

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I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. ↗

— James Whistler

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How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past. ↗

— David Wilkerson

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Beginning to create again was something that I took for granted but I never will take it for granted again. ↗

— Lou Gramm

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I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted. ↗

— John Guare

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I mean that'd be great if we could continue to be staples of alt-rock radio. I don't take that for granted. ↗

— Davey Havok

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A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted. ↗

— Dorothy Height

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Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted. ↗

— Alexis Herman

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I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

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Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

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