"Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes."
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"I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool."
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"Even if I say, Everyone in the village died of diarrhea, I still laugh a little after diarrhea."
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"As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor."
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"The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe."
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"I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is."
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"...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith."
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"Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village-the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human meat had sharp edges."
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"His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation."
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"Technology has made the world into a Village. Spirituality has made it into a Global Family."
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"Khadi is the sun of the village solar system."
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"Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof."
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"The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so."
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"Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization."
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"The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all the 12 months."
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"If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages."
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"The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule."
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"My idea of village SWARAJ is that is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others which dependence is a necessity."
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"In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village."
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"India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages."
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