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Alan Dundes

"Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible."

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Amber Hurdle

"Crawl in faith, and you will end up walking. Walk in faith, and you will end up jogging. Jog in faith, and you will end up running. Run in faith, and you will end up sprinting. Sprint in faith, and you will end up soaring."

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Amber Hurdle

"It might be like you are still far from getting there, but remember, you are closer to it than you were yesterday. Every tiny step you take counts a lot!"

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Amber Hurdle

"The messages emphasizing miracles and breakthrough must be replaced if our nation must move forward."

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Amber Hurdle

"Fundamentalism of any kind, be it religious, atheistic, political or educational, is the greatest threat to human excellence " it is a threat to progress " it is a threat to greatness."

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Amber Hurdle

"Start deep within yourself and slowly build outward toward your goal."

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Amber Hurdle

"Consistency is good, but progress is better."

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Amber Hurdle

"Remember, for a society to truly progress we don't need woman or man, we need a fully-fledged human - nothing short of that would do."

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Amber Hurdle

"If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors."

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Amber Hurdle

"Progress begins when you liberate your mind from the shackles of your ingrained tendencies of authoritarianism " the tendencies of greed " the tendencies of hatred, rage and lust."

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Amber Hurdle

"The absence of knowledge of the truths about money leads to poverty and financial slavery."

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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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"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."
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Alan Dundes
"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."
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"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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"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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Alan Dundes
"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."
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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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Alan Dundes
"Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations."
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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."
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"They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method."
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