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Alan Dundes

"Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke."

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Donna Grant

"The fact differentiates the fake."

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Donna Grant

"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."

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Donna Grant

"To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be."

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Donna Grant

"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."

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Donna Grant

"My truth could be very different than your truth."

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Donna Grant

"Truth is not for sale. The man who sells truths that could help and guide humanity will never have peace of mind. Share truths freely, and you will always be revealed more."

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Donna Grant

"I see the truth in people because they can see the truth in me."

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Donna Grant

"All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?"

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Donna Grant

"The truth can do years of work in seconds."

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Donna Grant

"The Scripture is never subjected to one's own interpretations."

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Alan Dundes
"In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future."

Cultural

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Alan Dundes
"My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses."

Identity

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Alan Dundes
"I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions."

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Alan Dundes
"In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed."

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Alan Dundes
"Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken."

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Alan Dundes
"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."

Cultural

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Alan Dundes
"Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke."

Truth

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Alan Dundes
"I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future."

Education

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Alan Dundes
"Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant."

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Alan Dundes
"If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research."

Research

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