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New York is not even a city, it's a congerie of rotten villages. — James M. Cain
Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost. — Henning Mankell
Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with the smallpox virus,… — Richard Preston
I disagree with Muhammad. I'm against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.… This is not a village of hate. It's a village of hope.… Don't let midgets… — Al Sharpton
If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a whole agency to make a successful campaign. — David Guerrero
If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even… — Trisha Goddard
When we get the remote Russian village online, what will get people to the Internet is not going to be reports from Human Rights Watch.… — Evgeny Morozov
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores. — Elsa Maxwell
Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies-… — James Howard Kunstler
I grew up Windlesham in Surrey, which is a beautiful and quaint village. — Kirsty Gallacher
I got into a brawl one night in a saloon in Greenwich Village. Elia Kazan, a great director, saw me put out a couple of… — Burl Ives
Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his… — William Kingdon Clifford
Id rather be selling groundnuts in my village than play for a pathetic club like Chelsea FC — Samuel Eto'o
You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of… — Sydney Schanberg
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… — Jack Kornfield
I thank Missio, (Pontifical Mission Societies), the primary instruments for cooperation in the universal Church's universal mission in the world. Through their action, the proclamation… — Pope Benedict XVI
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… — Michael Scott
The Greenpeace booth at all the rock and roll shows nowadays are akin to the old sorcerers who used to stand in the middle of… — P.J. O'Rourke
In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa,… — Paul Tsongas
It is the retention by twentieth-century, Atom-Age men of the Neolithic point of view that says: You stay in your village and I will stay… — Carleton S. Coon
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. — Brian Johnson
Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (1) Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing when the great ancient doctor Hua To could not defeat… — Mao Zedong
Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his… — Oliver Goldsmith
A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. "I got it from my good judgment," he… — Sydney J. Harris

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