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The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc.
Alan Dundes
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Alan Dundes
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Educator
Born:
Sep 8
,
1934
Died:
Mar 30
,
2005
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Legend
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Folklore
,
Superstition
,
Study
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,
Genres
,
Ballad
,
Proverb
,
Etc
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Riddle
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Robert Fulghum
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Hope
Dreams
Knowledge
History
Grief
Love Is
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Laughter
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Myth
Believe
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Triumphs
More
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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
John F. Kennedy
Truth
Great
Truth Is
Lie
Enemy
Myth
Great Enemy
Deliberate
Unrealistic
Very
Persistent
Contrived
Often
Dishonest
Persuasive
There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves.
Eugene Kennedy
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Forgiveness
Myth
Half
Encouragement
Complete
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Ourselves
Possible
Tells
Would
Would-Be
Imperfection
Arises
Perfection
Missing
Always
Were
Greek
Being
Different
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Being Different
Us
Searching
Need
I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
Hunter S. Thompson
Democracy
Tribal
Thought
Myth
Believe
Never
Anything
Republicans
I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.
Conor Oberst
Love
Mom
Love Is
Myth
Think
Ways
Only
Unconditional
Unconditional Love
Know
Real
Lot
Real Thing
Reason
Thing
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
Arthur M. Schlesinger
Technology
Science
Memory
Myth
Science And Technology
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Our
Our Lives
Response
Tradition
Revolutionize
Lives
When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless.
Chief Seattle
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Man
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People
Will
Men
Myth
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White
Earth
Tribe
Kindly
Shall
Never
Red
Invisible
Powerless
Dead
Him
Perished
Deal
His
Shores
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'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.
Annie Besant
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Natural
Impossible
Hero
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Moon
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Way
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Easter
Dates
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Anniversary
Calculated
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Historical
Very
Festival
Fixing
Movable
The History Of
Event
The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.
Baz Luhrmann
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Myth
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Becoming
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Blonde
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Barbie
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I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.
David Lynch
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Accept
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