#confer

The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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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. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Then, after I came home from Europe, I found I was under condemnation; and I was condemned at that time because I did not endorse the financial policy of the General Conference. ↗

— John Harvey Kellogg

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I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy. ↗

— William Scranton

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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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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

#city #conference #dinner #foot #go

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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You can't imagine how much detail we know about brains. There were 28,000 people who went to the neuroscience conference this year, and every one of them is doing research in brains. A lot of data. But there's no theory. There's a little, wimpy box on top there. ↗

— Jeff Hawkins

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Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie, they ask about other things. ↗

— Joel Silver

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