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10 Quotes

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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10 Quotes

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.. -  Charlie Chaplin Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you. - Calvin Coolidge Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. - John Russell An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. - G. K. Chesterton Humankind cannot stand very much reality. - T. S. Eliot The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. - Nancy Astor Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world. - Arthur Schopenhauer In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. - Franklin D. Roosevelt Life is like playi...
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