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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Peter Drucker

Power, Give, Privilege

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.
Bertrand Russell

Power, Beautiful, Slavery

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
Mason Cooley

Forget, Forgive, Dignity

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

Women, Fact, Church

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
William Ellery Channing

Work, Happiness, Men

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.
Publilius Syrus

Favor, Refuse, Graciously

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

Favor, Benefit, Worthy

To photograph is to confer importance.
Susan Sontag

Importance, Photograph

I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.
Gerald R. Ford

Country, Cannot, Honest

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

Live, Greatest, Become

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

Survival, Advantage, Evolution

While nobody has identified any gene for religion, there are certainly some candidate genes that may influence human personality and confer a tendency to religious feelings. Some of the genes likely to be involved are those which control levels of different chemicals called neurotransmitters in the brain.
Robert Winston

Religion, Human, Feelings

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.
Pope Benedict XVI

Women, Fact, Church

Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.
Giorgio de Chirico

Life, Strange, Dream

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.
Henri Bergson

Cannot, Main, Regard

A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals.
Richard V. Allen

Power, Him, Working

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.
Phyllis Schlafly

May, State, Becoming

And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others.
Auberon Herbert

Others, Themselves, Rights

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.
John Strachan

Great, God, Government

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.
Lydia M. Child

Yourself, Battle, Find

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