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

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

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

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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."

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

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"Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke."

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

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"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."

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