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    People are always dying in the Times who don’t seem to die in other papers, and they die at greater length and maybe even with a little more grace.
    James Reston (b. 1909)

    I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)