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" A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made. "
Edward Steichen
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" There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism. "
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