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I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

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I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

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Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

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I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

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I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

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Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

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In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

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Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

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When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

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I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't understand their comedy or their sensibility. ↗

— Carol Leifer

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