"place in the sun" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1908, Laurie Magnus, English literature in the nineteenth century: an essay in criticism, page 32",
          "text": "that all conscious or seeming-conscious life is worthy of a place in the sun; that the hodman at his plough, the daisy in the field, and the lover with his lass, are alike a part of Nature's pageant",
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          "ref": "1992, Mark A. Noll, A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada, page 311",
          "text": "And beyond the Christian orbit, other religious groups, at first Jews but then others as well, began to claim a place in the sun.",
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          "ref": "1972, Ben Barr Lindsey with Wainwright Evans, The companionate marriage, page 72",
          "text": "Jealousy is simply another way of demanding one's place in the sun – or under the domestic spotlight – a place in the center of the stage, as an exclusive object of consideration and attention.",
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        "Recognition, fame."
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