Quote by Alan Dundes
I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my

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. – Alan Dundes

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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. – Alan Dundes

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Future
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Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible. – Alan Dundes

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Future
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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. – Alan Dundes

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environmental
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One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises. – Chanakya

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Knowledge

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark. – John Jewel

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Knowledge

The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany. – Klaus Fuchs

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Knowledge

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. – Samuel Johnson

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Knowledge

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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom. – Samuel Dash

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The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it. – Robert Edison Fulton, Jr.

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