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"I am not for raising taxes on the American people in a soft economy."
"I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives."
"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."
"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."
"Ambition is not a vice of little people."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke."
"I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future."
"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."
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