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• The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by… — Pope Benedict XVI
• The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. — William Ellery Channing
• You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others?… — Lydia M. Child
• The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• In war, numbers alone confer no advantage. Do not advance relying on sheer military power. — Sun Tzu
• It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts. — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. — Charles Caleb Colton
• It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber. — William Shakespeare
• Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius. — Euripides
• The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are… — Charles Spurgeon
• Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always… — Samuel Johnson
• The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined… — Samuel Johnson

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