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To refuse graciously is to confer a favor. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

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When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies. ↗

— Tertullian

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Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

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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. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

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Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference. ↗

— Hugh Newell Jacobsen

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And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit. ↗

— Bobby Knight

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Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference. ↗

— Yitzhak Rabin

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Lucas attended a conference on rational expectations at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1973. The day after the conference, I received a call from Pittsburgh. ↗

— Thomas J. Sargent

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Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds. ↗

— Rene Daumal

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