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.
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