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Villages and woods, meadows and chateaux, pass across the moving scene, out of which the whistling of locomotives throws sharp notes. These faint, piercing sounds,… — Alberto Santos-Dumont
The Boeing 747 is the commuter train of the global village. — Hendrik Tennekes
What shall I say of the gallantry with which these Marines have fought! Of the slopes of Hill 142; of the Mares Farm; of the… — Unknown Author
In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the… — Hamid Karzai
When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the… — W. S. Gilbert
When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It… — Minnie Pearl
My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the… — Gregory Corso
The people in the village were real poor, so none of the children had any toys. But this one little boy had gotten an old… — Jack Handey
Tennis was a game invented by a woman named Samantha Tennis in 1839, in the village of Lobsworth, County of Kent, as a diversion for… — Dan Jenkins
When combined with information and communication technologies, microcredit can unleash new opportunities for the world's poorest entrepreneurs and thereby revitalize the village economies they serve. — Madeleine Albright
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… — Ban Ki-moon
An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But an elephant can… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First… — Unknown Author
Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger. — Colin Farrell
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… — Colin Farrell
I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for… — Charles Dickens
I try to remind people, whether you have a growth manager or a value manager, you're going to go through cycles where you think you… — Robert Rodriguez
All the real things in Russia are done in the villages. — Ernest Poole
When the soil's fertility is being conserved instead of raped, when village life is a social unity, when pride of craftsmanship returns, when everyone works… — Henry Williamson
We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between… — Alvin Toffler
Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was… — Alex Haley
I have seen ministers of justice, clothed in magisterial robes and criminals arraigned before them, while life was suspended on a breath in the courts… — Parley P. Pratt
My name is Mankiller, and in the old Cherokee Nation, when we lived here in the Southeast, we lived in semi-autonomous villages, and there was… — Wilma Mankiller
Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show… — Aldous Huxley

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