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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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"There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind."
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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
"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
"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
"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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