“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.”

If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars.

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore,

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.

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

Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.

We can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.

Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.

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.

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.

I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.

Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.

Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.

I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

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.

Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.

It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.

A lot of my colleagues actually yell and curse at each other. I don’t do that.

I’m proud to say like many of my colleagues in the Conservative Party I am fully behind Theresa May’s Brexit plans.

I have always thought it a great privilege to have as my colleague in the Palit Chair of Chemistry such a distinguished pioneer in scientific research and education in Bengal as Sir Prafulla Ray.

In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.

There’s nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.

Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.