Villages Quotes
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In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.
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I am very fond of the modest manner of life of those solitary owners of remote villages, who in Little Russia are commonly called "old-fashioned," who are like tumbledown picturesque little houses, delightful in their simplicity and complete unlikeness to the new smooth buildings whose walls have not yet been discolored by the rain, whose roofs are not yet covered with green lichen, and whose porch does not display its bricks through the peeling stucco.
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South India has beautiful villages.
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I've seen that many times in rural African villages where people have nothing but a hut and a bowl. The joy in the children's eyes is something you wish you could package and bring back to America.
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Villages are small and personal, and their inhabitants have names, characters, and personalities. What more appropriate concept on which to base our institutions of the future than the ancient social unit whose flexibility and strength substained human society through millenia?
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There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.
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Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.
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If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.
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There is so little one can be certain of these days . . . But finding a hand to hold while we walk this path makes even the most difficult of times better and the strangest of villages home . . . Once I thought my life was over . . . I never thought I would find happiness again . . . And then I met you and it all changed. You made me believe again that good things were possible. I love you.
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New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.
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Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger.
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What do you know about dragons?” “They're big, scaly, four-legged creatures with wings who terrorized small villages until a virgin was offered up as a sacrifice.” His grinned again. “I do miss the virgins.
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Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world. It claims 25,000 lives a day, 175,000 a week. It sweeps children from the arms of their mothers, robs hundreds of millions of any hope for the future. That tsunami is hunger. Help us end it now.
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Makes even the most difficult of times better and the strangest of villages home.
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The soul of India lives in its villages.
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I do not believe in the TRANSFER of an individual. I believe in the TRANSFER of entire villages.
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The poverty of the villages is almost picturesque from the windows of a coach that is not stopping.
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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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The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so.
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The future of India lies in its villages.
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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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If governments decide to return to the Moon - as seems to be the case - it must be to build villages, not bases, and to do it as rapidly as possible, as it needs to be an immediate challenge, not a distant dream. And if some want to go to Mars or mine asteroids, they need to be seen as part of a new frontier community.
