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"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."
Cultural
"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
"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
"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."
Education
"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
"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."
Theory
"Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations."
Life
"Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke."
Truth
"Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment."
Cultural
"My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses."
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"Progress does take time, it doesn't matter how slowly or fast you go, it will sure come."
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"The absence of knowledge of the truths about money leads to poverty and financial slavery."
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"I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking."
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"If the humanity does not poison the minds of the children with all sort of religious craps, the new generations of humanity will soon create a new world order where reason and logic will be the sole guide, the sole savior!"
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"And the people of Ankh-Morpork are so thirsty for novelty that the whole city is, you might say, hurrying the future along for the sheer joy of watching its progress."
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"Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbour of humanity's great aspirations."
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"A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits."
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"You are modern humans of the civilized world. And modern humans rise beyond all laws and superstitions of the society. They help their fellow beings to rise from the ashes of ignorance, illusion and fear."
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"Without constructive skepticism, without human progress."
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"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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