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

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

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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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"We must eradicate ignorance and illiteracy from our nations and continent to the nearest minimum for us to have a national development."

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"The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced."

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"A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known."

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"A little here and a little there will always accumulate, so why be surprised when steady, small steps take you to great places?"

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"The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error."

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"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."
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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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"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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"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."
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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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"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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"Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment."
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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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"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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"Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations."
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