Confer
To bring together for comparison; to compare.
To grant as a possession; to bestow.
To contribute; to conduce.
To have discourse; to consult; to compare views; to deliberate.
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Confer Quotations
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Peter Drucker
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
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
To photograph is to confer importance.
Susan Sontag
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
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
William Ellery Channing
To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
Mason Cooley
When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.
Publilius Syrus
To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.
Publilius Syrus
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
Confer Translations
confer in Spanish is conferir
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