Carl Friedrich Gauss Quotes
There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.
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I don't think the Republicans care much about minorities.
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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A heart makes a good home for the friend.
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To be conformed to this world is to risk the loss of one’s eternal soul.
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We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and willingly give up life itself.
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My mum had a very strong moral code, which I kind of came with. I never really had to be told what was right or wrong - I knew. I was very mature from early on and I was a very good girl, so she never had any trouble with me.
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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
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My praying friend, continue to make known your desires to God in all things. ... Let Him decide whether you are to receive what you ask for or not.
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There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science.
