"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."

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"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."

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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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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."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."

Elizabeth George, American Author

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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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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."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."

Edward Abbey, American Author

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"We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobody could have predicted what he would become to our culture."

Phil Knight, American Businessman

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"Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents."

Cultural

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak."

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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

"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