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«The sheepskin conferred on a student by a college hardly compensates for the human hide that will be knocked off him later in the school of experience»
Author: Charley Jones
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college student, compensates, conferred, knocked, knock off, School of, sheepskin, sheepskins, student, The school
«That they (the powers of heaven) may be conferred upon us, it is true; but when we undertake to cover? our sins, or to gratify our pride, our vain ambition, or to exercise control or dominion? or compulsion upon the souls of the children of men, in any degree of unrighteousness, behold, the heavens withdraw? themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved»
Author: Joseph Smith
(Religious leader)
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Religion
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«That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.»
Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
(Orator, Playwright, Politician)
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benefits, conferred, prematurely, records, virtuously
«LL.D. Letters indicating the degree _Legumptionorum Doctor_, one learned in laws, gifted with legal gumption. Some suspicion is cast upon this derivation by the fact that the title was formerly _LL.d._, and conferred only upon gentlemen distinguished for their wealth. At the date of this writing Columbia University is considering the expediency of making another degree for clergymen, in place of the old D.D. --_Damnator Diaboli_. The new honor will be known as _Sanctorum Custus_, and written _$$c_. The name of the Rev. John Satan has been suggested as a suitable recipient by a lover of consistency, who points out that Professor Harry Thurston Peck has long enjoyed the advantage of a degree.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate, it has at the same time provided humanity with a supreme challenge and a supreme testing»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
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Discovery,
Science,
Testing
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annihilate, annihilates, conferred, scientific discovery, Supreme Power, testing, unalloyed
«The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.»
Author: John Lennon
(Political activist, Singer, Songwriter)
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conferred, distinction, legion, legions, Legion of, Legion of Honor, The cross, The Legion of Honor
«Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
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benefits, conferred, conferring, confer with, gradually, in good taste, in that, taste
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