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in a village you can't sack or fight with someone, as you'll find yourself stuck beside them in the hairdresser's next morning.

Jilly Cooper

Morning, Fighting, Finding Yourself

Jilly Cooper (2011). “Turn Right At The Spotted Dog”, p.59, Random House

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Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of thehighest grade, and libraries, and countless circles in our towns and villages of scholarly, leisurely folk, who loved books, and music, and Nature, and lived much apart with them. The mad craze for money, which clutches at our souls to-day as la grippe does at our bodies, was hardly known then.

Rebecca Harding Davis

Country, Teacher, Money

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To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.

Hal Borland

Family, Home, House

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Women can succeed in villages all over the world today without relying on heavy machinery or debt. They can take leadership roles in agriculture, eliminating hunger and inequity.

Frances Moore Lappé

Agriculture, Roles, Debt

Interview with Karen Brown, blog.etsy.com. July 23, 2013.

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I live in a Swiss village so small, if you sneeze everyone knows.

Geraldine Chaplin

Swiss, Knows, Ifs

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Even if you live in a tiny village, there's an Internet site. It's quite easy to find clothes, but sometimes women don't know how to mix them.

Ines de La Fressange

Clothes, Tiny, Sometimes

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Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.

Morris Raphael Cohen

Freedom, Men, Cities

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The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.

Marshall McLuhan

Science, Independence, World

Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds few terrors.

Stephen King

Two, Voice, Criticism

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Entirely incidentally, a little-known fact about Shakespeare is that his father moved to Stratford-upon-Avon from a nearby village shortly before his son's birth. Had he not done so, the Bard of Avon would instead be known as the rather less ringing Bard of Snitterfield.

Bill Bryson

Father, Son, Done

Bill Bryson (1990). “The Mother Tongue”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

Isabel Allende

Country, Children, Giving

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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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Woods, Return, Wilderness

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.30, Penguin

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In a small village near Calcutta, in 1998, a villager who could not speak English sang me What Did You Learn In School Today? in Bengali! Tom Paxton’s songs are reaching around the world more than he is, or any of us could have realized. Keep on, Tom!

Tom Paxton

Song, School, Speak English

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Remote villages and rural communities have lost their identity, and their charm and peace have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

James Norman Hall

Car, Community, Lost Friendship

"Under a Thatched Roof".

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One day Mara, the Buddhist god of ignorance and evil, was traveling through the villages of India with his attendants. He saw a man doing walking meditation whose face was lit up in wonder. The man had just discovered something on the ground in front of him. Mara's attendants asked what that was and Mara replied, "A piece of truth." "Doesn't this bother you when someone finds a piece of the truth, O evil one?" his attendants asked. "No," Mara replied. "Right after this they usually make a belief out of it."

Jack Kornfield

Buddhist, Ignorance, Men

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In northwest Alaska, kunlangeta "might be applied to a man who, for example, repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things and does not go hunting, and, when the other men are out of the village, takes sexual advantage of many women." The Inuits tacitly assume that kunlangeta is irremediable. And so, according to Murphy, the traditional Inuit approach to such a man was to insist he go hunting, and then, in the absence of witnesses, push him off the edge of the ice.

Martha Stout

Lying, Men, Hunting

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I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or 14 years old. But I was also really shy when I was growing up.

Steven Strait

New York, Growing Up, Years

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers.

James Wolcott

Voice, Office, Break Out

"James Wolcott’s Old New York". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 25, 2011.

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I grew up in a small village close to a big lake. There are heavy winds there, and they always sound different. I like these sounds best.

Christian Fennesz

Lakes, Wind, Sound

Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

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Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

Oscar Wilde

Beautiful, Education, Children

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Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.

William Faulkner

Color, Heaven, Cottages

William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

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You must think about building a 'granth-mandir' in your village. Why is your village lacking such a 'granth-mandir'? Start with 50 books...100 books.

Narendra Modi

Book, Thinking, Empowerment

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Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close,
Up yonder hill the village murmur rose;
There as I passed, with careless steps and slow,
The mingling notes came soften'd from below;
The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung,
The sober herd that low'd to meet their young;
The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool,
The playful children just let loose from school;
The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind,
And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind;
These all in sweet confusion sought the shade,
And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.

Oliver Goldsmith

Dog, Sweet, Children

Oliver Goldsmith, “The Deserted VILLage”

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Millions of our fellow human beings continue to live as contemporary slaves, victims of abominable practices like human trafficking, forced labour and sexual exploitation. Countless children are forced to become soldiers, work in sweat shops or are sold by desperate families. Women are brutalized and traded like commodities. Entire households and villages labour under debt bondage.

Ban Ki-moon

Children, Practice, Sweat

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I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.

Mahatma Gandhi

Frontiers, Indian

Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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