"Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations."

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"Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations."

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Life, Instead, Clinging, Truth, Honesty

"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Life, Path, Truth, Discovery

"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Life, Memories, Property, Precious

"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Life, Cleansed, Conscience, Emerges

"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Life, Power, Inspirational, Truth, Wisdom

"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Life, Truth, Memory, Expression, Wisdom

"I am born to win."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Life, Born, Win, Destiny, Success

"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Life, Abundance, Generosity, Receiving

"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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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."

Education, Class, Order, Reading, Running

"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, Culture, Future, Light, Questions

"My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses."

Identity, Years

"Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations."

Life, Nothing

"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, Knowledge, Class, Religious

"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, Anthropology, Students

"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."

Theory,

"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, Environmental, Quality, People

"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,

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

Progress, Expectation, Future, Nothing