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Quote by Alan Dundes
If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses includi

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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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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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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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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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. – Beverly Sills

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If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. – Robert Goheen, Time, 23 June 1961

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Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain. – Gordon Brown

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I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do. – Bob Newhart

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Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood. – Wallace Stevens, 1916

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We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown. – Oliver Goldsmith

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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. РAntoine de Saint-Exup̩ry, Flight to Arras, 1942

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