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• Whether a pretty woman grants or withholds her favors, she always likes to be asked for them.

  Richard Steele

  Pretty Woman, Favors, Likes

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• Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.

  Abigail Adams

  Family, Country, Children

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• I am well pleased with what I hear of you: The principal Satisfaction I can expect in Life, in future will be in your good Behavior and that of my other Children. My Hopes from all of you are very agreable. God grant, I may not be disappointed.

  John Adams

  Family, Children, May

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• If the Irish once find out that there are any circumstances in which they can get free government grants, we shall have a system of mendicancy [begging] such as the world never knew”. After a million had starved to death he stated “The great evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

  Charles Trevelyan

  Selfish, Character, Government

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• In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government

  John Moody

  War, Land, Government

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• If gratitude is not rooted in the beauty of God before the gift, it is probably disguised idolatry. May God grant us a heart to delight in him for who he is so that all our gratitude for his gifts will be the echo of our joy in the excellency of the Giver!

  John Piper

  Gratitude, Heart, Echoes

  John Piper (2009). “A Godward Life: Savoring the Supremacy of God in All of Life”, p.214, Multnomah

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• The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands.

  John Locke

  Government, Hands, Law

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.312

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• O you who have borne even heavier things, to these too, God will grant an end!

  Virgil

  Ends, Gods Will

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• O grant me, Heaven, a middle state, Neither too humble nor too great; More than enough, for nature's ends, With something left to treat my friends.

  David Mallet

  Humble, Heaven, Enough

  Imitation of Horace.

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• If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

  Voltaire

  Father, Book, Desire

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• Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

  George Chapman

  Men, Done, Virtue

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• The French debt will remain massive. Savings should be made with cuts to the generous social system, which grants illegal immigrants the same protections as it does our citizens.

  Marine Le Pen

  Cutting, Doe, Citizens

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Being a nerd, which is to say going to far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm like detective novels or Ulysses S. Grant.

  Sarah Vowell

  Caring, Nerd, Ulysses's Grant

  Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• I would love to do a really cool romantic comedy, perhaps with Hugh Grant. I think he is brilliant. That's the kind of film I love to go to see. I love 'girls' films.

  Sophia Myles

  Girl, Thinking, Comedy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My favourite actors are all dead or dying. I just love Jimmy Stewart, Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn - I was named after her - and Cary Grant. I just love old black and white movies and the stars in them. It must have been a great time to be in Hollywood.

  Katharine Isabelle

  Stars, Black And White, Dying

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• Growing up, my mom would watch 'Notting Hill' a lot. She loves Hugh Grant.

  Ken Baumann

  Mom, Growing Up, Watches

  "Secret Life's Ken Baumann Answers Our 17 Questions". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. March 23, 2012.

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• It's not our ability to get forgiveness that saves us. It's out ability to grant forgiveness.

  Jeri Smith-Ready

  Ability

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• If a man's esteem and gratitude are ever worth the winning, you have won mine today. If ever the future should bring to you a time when you need a man's help, believe me, you will not call in vain. God grant that no such time may ever come to you to break the sunshine of your life; but if it should ever come, promise me that you will let me know.

  Bram Stoker

  Gratitude, Believe, Sunshine

  Bram Stoker (1987). “Dracula: World Classics”, p.242, World Classic

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• The gospel of a God found in broken flesh, humility, and measureless charity has defeated all the old lies, rendered the ancient order visibly insufficient and even slightly absurd, and instilled in us a longing for transcendent love so deep that-if once yielded to-it will never grant us rest anywhere but in Christ.

  David Bentley Hart

  Lying, Humility, Order

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• If I had unlimited, god-like powers and could grant my prospectivecustomer the biggest benefit I can possibly imagine he or she would ideally want from myproduct, what would that be?

  Ted Nicholas

  Benefits, Want, Imagine

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• No one is so rich that he does not need another's help; no one so poor as not to be useful in some way to his fellow man; and the disposition to ask assistance from others with confidence and to grant it with kindness is part of our very nature.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Kindness, Men, Doe

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.322, TAN Books

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• May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Humility, May, Judgment

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• We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Powerful, Justice, Elements

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.288, Library of America

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• Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Freedom, Hands, Feelings

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.174, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time.

  David Dinkins

  Government, Ties, Guarantees

  PBS interview, www.thirteen.org.

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