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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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"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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Amber Hurdle

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"I find beauty in every sacred moment."

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"Life and death is not a do-it-yourself project."

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Amber Hurdle

"No matter how much you exercise, no matter how many vitamins or health foods you eat, no matter how low your cholesterol, you will still die-someday. If you knew the moment and manner of your death in advance, would you order your life differently?"

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Amber Hurdle

"Life becomes difficult when out of sync with your heart-felt desires."

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"The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I."

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Amber Hurdle

"Better to be dirty than dead."

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Amber Hurdle

"God is not ecstatic about the lack you are experiencing; He is not delightful over your failures, He is not happy about your stagnancy."

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"Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy."

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"Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke."
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"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."
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"My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses."
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"Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations."
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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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"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."
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"Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment."
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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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"I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future."
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