"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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"I've seen villages in South America with no police whatever. Then the cops would arrive, then the sanitary inspectors, and before you know it they've got all the problems - crime, juvenile delinquency, the whole works - just like us."
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"Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy."
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"There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel."
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"True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town."
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"The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations."
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"I will be a missionary in a remote village at some point."
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"Your village just called. They're missing an idiot."
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"Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin."
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"I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village."
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"Khaddar is an attempt to revise and reverse the process and establish a better relationship between the cities and villages."
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"A samagra gramsevak must know everybody living in the village and render them such service as he possibly can."
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"It takes only one child to raze a village."
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"Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they have one Bible for a whole village."
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"Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism."
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"If you're going to do a movie about the Village, it's pretty nice to shoot in the village and not be in Toronto."
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