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As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
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You've got to be able to copy things faithfully before you can deviate.
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Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they'll be willing to pay for it?
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The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.
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You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.
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Nothing is harder to resist than a bit of flattery.
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Lists are a form of power.
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Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
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In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.
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We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes--and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.
