Rachel Simmons

Happiness doesn't just happen. It must be pursued. And if the pursuit of the 'ultimate currency' of happiness helps us choose occupations that confer present and future benefit, and these choices, in turn, motivate us to succeed, this strikes me as perhaps the most powerful non-cognitive skill of all.

American Author

Maria Montessori

To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest.

Italian Educator

Jim McGovern

Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate charters that confer certain legal rights and privileges, like the ability to enter into contracts, limited liability and perpetual life.

American Politician

Geronimo

I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.

Statesman

Horace

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Roman Poet

Herbert Hoover

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

American President

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

French Lawyer

Plato

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

Greek Philosopher

Peter Drucker

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

American Businessman

Susan Sontag

Used when a formal honor or academic achievement is officially given.

Ceremonial Context

Often implies a recognition of merit or accomplishment.

Recognition Implication

Commonly used in a passive form, especially in formal announcements.

Passive Construction

Implies a group of people meeting to decide on an issue after discussion.

Collective Decision

Carries a formal tone, suitable for business or official contexts.

Professional Tone

Can indicate a private or secretive meeting for sensitive discussions.

Private Meetings

Denotes giving a positive attribute to a person or thing, enhancing its value or reputation.

Attribute Addition

May be used metaphorically to enhance the meaning beyond the literal sense.

Metaphorical Use

 The sudden death of so many of the most frail and vulnerable people left behind a population with a significantly different gene pool, including genes that may have helped survivors resist the disease. And because such mutations often confer immunities to multiple pathogens that work in similar ways,

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 You ask her where she lives -- where does she live in exile? She says the airports of the world. She is traveling because she was out of the country at the time of the elections. And instead of going home, she conferred with all the other women that she works with,

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 Before I tell you why it isn't, I'm going to go a little bit into what I'm calling step two. Just suppose, as I said, that we do acquire -- let's say we do it today for the sake of argument -- the ability to confer 30 extra years of healthy life

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 because they share half our genes, but not how gene percentages confer rights -- wizard. When someone announces that the nature-nurture debate has been settled because there's evidence that a given percentage of our political opinions

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 special wildness through any landscape like snow fall mist or fog it confers a great strangeness on a place and it's happened here this evening it's been absolutely magical to be out here the Sun set nuclear behind the bread world

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 our dna chain and so we need to ask ourselves some questions for the first time in the history of this planet we are able to directly design organisms we can manipulate the plasms of life with unprecedented power and it confers

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 I understood her to be saying that concessions confer only a little humanity where full humanity is due; that crumbs are not the same as a place at the table. Which is to say, you can forge meaning and build identity

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 to the ideal of a long life. They engage in many practices thought to confer good health and survival to an advanced age. But they don't put much stock in efforts to prolong life in the face of debilitating illness

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 if you can't do it again and again. Mastery is not just the same as excellence, though. It's not the same as success, which I see as an event, a moment in time, and a label that the world confers upon you.

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 history to fly an airplane across the atlantic ocean as their spokesman i take pride and pleasure in conferring this the rarely bestowed medal of the national geographical society upon mrs

Confer

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Recognition Implication

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