Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.

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"The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes."

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- Eric Sevareid

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