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Liberace. Photo: The Telegraph

Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.
- Liberace

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
- Alan Alda

Of those who say nothing, few are silent.
- Thomas Neill

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
- Mahatma Gandhi

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
- Herman Melville

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
- William Butler Yeats

I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
- Albert Einstein

Experience teaches only the teachable.
- Aldous Huxley

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
- Edward Teller

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