Best Villages Quotes
130 Villages quotes by 115 unique authors
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What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and…
— Moshe Dayan
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Technology, including Zaadz, will allow us to evade the jerks far more than we could before. The technology-based social responsibility movement, broadly construed, will allow…
— Michael Strong
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The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and…
— E F Schumacher
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The true India resides in its villages
— Charan Singh
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Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas…
— Theodore White
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The decision to rely heavily on high-altitude air power, target urban infrastructure and repeatedly attack heavily populated towns and villages has reflected a deliberate trade-off…
— Unknown Author
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The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the…
— Sharon Olds
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Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops, and mobile markets…
— Van Jones
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The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed…
— Bronislaw Malinowski
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Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.
— James Norman Hall
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The works of mercy are the opposite of the works of war, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, nursing the sick, visiting the prisoner. But…
— Dorothy Day
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Spring came late, but when it came it was hand-in-hand with summer, and almost at once everything was baking and warm, and in the villages…
— Nancy Mitford
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One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed,…
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.
— Ray Kurzweil
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Oh Lord, I thank Thee that I can bring these people Thy Word. But Lord, there are other villages back in the jungle where no…
— Mary Slessor
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New York is not even a city, it's a congerie of rotten villages.
— James M. Cain
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Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost.
— Henning Mankell
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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
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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…
— Jack Kornfield
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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…
— Ban Ki-moon
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