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Quote by Alan Dundes
In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions

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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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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Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible. – 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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The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done. – George MacDonald

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A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. – Eric Hoffer

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies to a child when a parent dies, the past dies. – Red Auerbach

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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future. – Barbara Jordan

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