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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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"Maybe, it is easier to forget the past,than to overcome the pain caused by it.Maybe, it is one of some other reasons,why men forget their prehuman ancestor."
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"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters."
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"Reliving your painful past will poison your heart and your tomorrow."
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"It's kind of hard to outlive your past."
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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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"Past is aipsom if you learned from the past."
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"I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible."
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"I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past."
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"Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold."
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"I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate."
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"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."
Cultural
"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
"Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations."
Life
"Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke."
Truth
"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."
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
"I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future."
Education
"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
"Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible."
Progress
"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
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