Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"The soul of India lives in its villages."
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Village
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Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers."
Yancy Butler
Actress
"I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"The future of India lies in its villages"
Brian Johnson
Musician
"Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died."
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"Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity. At the same time, we expect our committed relationships to be romantic as well as emotionally and sexually fulfilling. Is it any wonder that so many relationships crumble under the weight of it all?"
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"Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and quiet but it does mean huge involvement in everybody else's affairs."
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"I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today."
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"If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad."
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"Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them!"
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"Being prime minister isn't the only job in life! As far as I'm concerned, I could live in a village and be satisfied."
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"First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation."
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"Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts."
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"We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia."
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"Time’ has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village... a simultaneous happening"
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"The Westgate Landfill is zoned for residential use. It's near a planned village. The Navy has a capping plan for the site, but it's not consistent with residential use for the site."
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"I want to build a treehouse village connected by bridges in the woods by my house so my friends have a place to stay."
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"The village had institutionalized all human functions in forms of low intensity.... Participation was high and organization was low. This is the formula for stability."
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"You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages."
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"Up in the north of Scotland, a lot of the villages are completely Viking names. A lot of Vikings came down and settled in Scotland and in Ireland. And a lot of them didn't, but they took plenty of us with them - mostly the chicks."
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"I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome."
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"The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it."
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"There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against you, you yours against me, and no one will ever see us."
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"The villagers seldom leave the village; many scientists have limited and poorly cultivated minds apart from their specialty."
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"Even the village rain-maker no longer claimed to be able to intervene. He could not stop the rain now, just as he would not attempt to start it in the heart of the dry season, without serious danger to his own health."
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