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«When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.»
Author: Bayard Rustin
(
Activist)
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About:
Dignity,
Protest
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Keywords:
acknowledge,
conferring,
confers,
confer with,
protest,
protested,
protesting,
protests,
refusal,
Refusals
«Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.»
«Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.»
«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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Keywords:
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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About:
Machines
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Keywords:
confer,
conferring,
confer with,
hated,
hideous,
impose,
loathed,
slavery,
valued,
worshipped
«People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(
Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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About:
Confidence,
Gifts,
Trust
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Keywords:
complete,
conferring,
confers,
confer with,
false,
inference,
inferences,
no confidence,
ours,
rights
«To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other cheap and trivial»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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About:
Action,
Pleasure
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Keywords:
cheap,
commonplace,
commonplaces,
compared,
confer,
conferring,
confer with,
pleasures,
say something,
tame,
tamer,
tames,
tamest,
taming,
trivial
«What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
breast,
bring to,
conferring,
confers,
confer with,
delight,
discovery,
noblest,
pride,
swelled,
swells,
swell up,
swollen,
walked,
walking,
with pride
«Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better»
«When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.»