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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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"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."
Cultural
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations."
Life
"Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke."
Truth
"Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment."
Cultural
"My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses."
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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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"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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"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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"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."
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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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"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."
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"The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world."
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"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."
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"Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience."
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