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«Being sixty in Washington sometimes feels like having had one year's experience sixty times. However, age can confer a certain calm about the passing circus, a preference for understatement and for people with low emotional metabolisms.»
Author: George F. Will
| Keywords:
confer, metabolism, metabolisms, one year, preference, understatement, understatements
«Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.»
Author: Peter F. Drucker
(Educator, Writer)
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confer, conferring, confer with, imposes, privilege, rank, rankest
«Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man; studies are for shaping attitudes, feelings, desires, emotions and impulses of man, so that they may confer more peace, more joy and more fortitude on man.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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agriculture, attitudes, cater, catered, catering, confer, conferring, confer with, fortitude, impulses, shaping, skills, studies
«Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they impose slavery»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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Machines
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confer, conferring, confer with, hated, hideous, impose, loathed, slavery, valued, worshipped
«The administration of government, like guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
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confer, guardianship
«My activities are not for publicity or propaganda or even to confer joy on others! They are for conferring joy primarily on Me!»
«They found that the Vedas contain the secrets of all the arts which confer progress on man.»
«Alongside of knowledge, youth has to cultivate the good qualities of humility, reverence, devotion to God and steadfast faith. He has to engage himself in good works and enjoy them for the sheer elation they confer.»
«It is natural to every man to wish for distinction, and the praise of those who can confer honor by their praise, in spite of all false philosophy, is sweet to every human heart; but as eminence can be but the lot of a few, patience of obscurity is a»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
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Honor,
Philosophy,
Praise
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confer, eminence, natural philosophy
«Minds that have nothing to conferFind little to perceive.»
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