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"Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents."
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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."
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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."
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"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."
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"Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own."
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"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."
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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."
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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."
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"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."
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"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."
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"Greenies have been part of the clubhouse culture longer than card games."
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"There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research."
Research
"Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible."
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"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."
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"I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future."
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"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."
Family
"Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations."
Life
"The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it."
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"Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life."
Life
"Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak."
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"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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