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"To see life; to see the world; to eyewitness great events; to
watch the faces of the poor and the gestures of the proud; to see strange
things--machines, armies, multitudes, shadows in the jungle and on the
moon; to see man's work--his paintings, towers and discoveries; to see
things thousands of miles away, things hidden behind walls and within
rooms, things dangerous to come to; the women men love and many children;
to see and to take pleasure in seeing; to see and be amazed; to see and be
instructed..."
Henry Luce, LIFE's founding editor,
describing the mission of the magazine, 1936 (LIFE HP)
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