Confer Quotes

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Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are… — Vikram Seth
All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters and to the… — Niccolo Machiavelli
To refuse graciously is to confer a favor. — Publilius Syrus
The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic,… — Bertrand Russell
Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without… — Samuel Johnson
In true natural selection, if a body has what it takes to survive, its genes automatically survive because they are inside it. So the genes… — Richard Dawkins
A hastily written "Civil Rights Act" was rushed through Congress. President Andrew Johnson immediately vetoed it, noting that the right to confer citizenship rested with… — Eustace Mullins
Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship. — Phyllis Schlafly
The fact that your voice is amplified to the degree where it reaches from one end of the country to the other does not confer… — Edward R. Murrow
A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the… — Richard V. Allen
Within the child lies the fate of the future. Whoever wishes to confer some benefit on society must preserve him from deviations and observe his… — Maria Montessori
Government is as unreal, as intangible, as unapproachable as God. Try it, if you don't believe it. Seek through the legislative halls of America and… — Voltairine de Cleyre
When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with… — Mencius
I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because… — Leonard Cohen
It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon… — Friedrich Nietzsche
To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the… — C.S. Lewis
Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all, and… — Charlotte Bronte
Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain… — Giorgio de Chirico
For every alleged benefit that the politicians confer upon us, they must necessarily deprive us of something else. — Henry Hazlitt
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession. — Sallust

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