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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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. – Alan Dundes

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Graduation
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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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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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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. – Thomas Berger

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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? – T. S. Eliot

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Knowledge

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. – Plato

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Knowledge

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. – John Cheever

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Knowledge

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It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor as such differences become less, it grows feeble and when they disappear, it will vanish too. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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I wasnt with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it. – Thomas S. Monson

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