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But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only. ↗

— 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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This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

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The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research. ↗

— Joshua Leonard

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No matter the circumstances that you may be going through, just push through it. ↗

— Ray Lewis

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Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal. ↗

— Gilbert Newton Lewis

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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Thing is, I'm a funny actor, but I'm not good at being funny. I'm going to ramble for a second: I'm an actor who can make things funny in the moment, like in stakes or in circumstances or out of character. ↗

— Matthew Lillard

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Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance. ↗

— Charles Lindbergh

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That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides. ↗

— Anna Lindh

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