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"Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible."
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"There comes some special times that you got to keep "impossibility thinkers" behind you and walk with those are prepared to go forward with you because that is the only option to keep you going!"

"You may not have finished today but the work you did got you closer than if you would have done nothing."

"There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there."

"And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot. But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans."

"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."

"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!"

"True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis."

"Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression."
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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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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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