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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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"What was the point of spying if you couldn't keep it a secret?"
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"The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost."
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"Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away. Quit collecting every painful word, memory and mistake. Collect hope."
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"Today wouldn't have happened if histories weren't falsified."
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"The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning."
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"The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit."
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"Not to be born is, past all prizing, best."
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"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters."
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"The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past."
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"Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past."
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"Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke."
Truth
"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."
Cultural
"My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses."
Identity
"Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations."
Life
"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."
Past
"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
"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
"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."
Life
"Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment."
Cultural
"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
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