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Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village. -- Thabo Mbeki
Death. Starvation. Blindness. Another grim day in our village. -- Richelle Mead
In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If your shout is local, only your village will hear you; if your whisper is universal, the whole world will hear you! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
But I will never ask anyone from our village-from any village in Tlanth-to risk his or her life unless I'm willing to myself. -- Sherwood Smith
There's nothing nicer than coming back to your village, where people like my mum's friends take the mick out of me. I prefer that to the craziness of Hollywood. -- Jeremy Irvine
Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond. -- Tom Stoppard
I don't need to move to the States; I love our little village, Ibstock. -- Stephen Graham
Since the whole village was poor, we didn't realize our own poverty. I was happy. -- Bidzina Ivanishvili
Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time. -- John Berger
I come from a small village in Sicily. For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families. -- Domenico Dolce
Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North. -- Rebecca Harding Davis
The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route. -- Zebulon Pike
A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country. -- Boris Yeltsin
Having covered some half a hundred cities, towns, villages, and wide spots in the road during the last tow years, George and I fairly wallowed in the comfort of our own home base. -- Martin Milner
As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in place. And we've taken for granted all of that child care, the neighbourliness, the help that you get from people nearby. -- Susan Oliver
It's our responsibility for the village to say, 'Hey we're going to create these programs,' whether it's sports, creative arts, music, we need some things to give young people positive things to do, and that's including jobs. -- Common
India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village. -- Pranab Mukherjee
All of Africa's resources should be declared resources of the state and managed by the nation. Our experience in Bolivia shows that when you take control of natural resources for the people of the town and village, major world change is possible. -- Evo Morales
I have asked the village blacksmith to forge golden chains to tie our ankles together. I have gathered all the gay ribbons in the world to wind around and around and around and around and around and around again around our two waists. -- Harry Crosby
The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be. -- Walter Ulbricht
Schooling should not be left to the whim or wealth of village elders. I believe that we should fund all schools in the U.S. with our national resources. All these kids are being educated to be Americans, not citizens of Minneapolis or San Francisco. -- Jonathan Kozol
The whole world is global. With the Internet, it's like we're all living in a small village. We're starting more and more to realize there is no difference, we can work together, we can put aside our differences and work on our similarities and be successful in that way. -- Shohreh Aghdashloo
So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing. -- Michael Stipe
I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living. -- Ishmael Beah
I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat. -- Young Jeezy
I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Since the whole village was poor, we didnt realize our own poverty. I was happy. -- Bidzina Ivanishvili
Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it. -- Henry David Thoreau
Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village. -- Richard J. Foster

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