Carl Friedrich Gauss Quotes

If the object of all human investigation were but to produce in cognition a reflection of the world as it exists, of what value would be all its labor and pains, which could result only in vain repetition, in an imitation within the soul of that which exists without it?

Carl Friedrich Gauss

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• I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.

  

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• All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.

  

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• There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.

  

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• When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.

  

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• In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.

  

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• What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

  

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• One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

  

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• My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.

  

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• Being a celebrity is a business.

  

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• I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.

  

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• Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.

  

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• In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

  

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• Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.

  

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• Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.

  

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• Maybe one day I will work in Italy. If they want me.

  

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• If the object of all human investigation were but to produce in cognition a reflection of the world as it exists, of what value would be all its labor and pains, which could result only in vain repetition, in an imitation within the soul of that which exists without it?

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • World
  • Soul
  • Value