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.
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When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.
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Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
Charles Caleb Colton in Lacon (1825)
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Be a conferrer.
Confer a favour; seek not a favour.
To confer means winning gratitude.
To win gratitude is superior
To showing gratitude for the favours.
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poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.
quote by Suzanne Vega
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If you have no one else, then confer with your knee.
To photograph is to confer importance.
quote by Susan Sontag
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To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.
quote by Publilius Syrus
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To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
quote by Mason Cooley
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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
quote by Peter Drucker
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The Grace—Myself—might not obtain
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The Grace—Myself—might not obtain—
Confer upon My flower—
Refracted but a Countenance—
For I—inhabit Her—
poem by Emily Dickinson
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I do not confer praise or blame I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.
quote by W. Somerset Maugham
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All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. - Notebook, 1908
quote by Mark Twain
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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
Sallust in The War with Catiline
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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.
quote by Bertrand Russell
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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 some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.
quote by Pope Benedict XVI
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In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do not carry with her the revelations of God.
quote by John Strachan
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You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.
quote by Lydia M. Child
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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
quote by William Ellery Channing
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We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.
quote by Henri Bergson
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