Should the author raise a salient point that interests you and they happen to cite somebody, look up the citation and read the original source.

作者提出了让你感兴趣的观点，恰好是引用的别人的话，查找引用观点的原文并阅读。

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Much later the Graham family remembered that another preacher had prayed that out of Charlotte the Lord would raise up somebody to preach the gospel to the ends of the earth, and that is exactly what Billy Frank Graham has been doing for the past 63 years.

ECONOMIST: American evangelism