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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.
— Alan Dundes
Tags: trends, try, new, past

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Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.
— Alan Dundes
Tags: series, seems, nothing, life
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.
— Alan Dundes
Tags: grandparents, worship, who, children
Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.
— Alan Dundes
Tags: nothing, impossible, progress, future
Americans do believe in progress and there is almost certainly a kernel of truth in the joke.
— Alan Dundes
Tags: joke, progress, believe, truth
I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.
— Alan Dundes
Tags: present, past, future, time
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