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"Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up."
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"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."
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"Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning."
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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."
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"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."
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"The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture."
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"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."
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"Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better."
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"Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail."
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"Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts."
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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."
Research
"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
"Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke."
Truth
"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."
Friendship
"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."
Cultural
"Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents."
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
"My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses."
Identity
"I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future."
Education
"Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak."
People
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