#village

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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


#beauty #became #could #created #east

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.


John George Nicolay


#among #attractive #elements #equally #fair

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 other villages' horrors at the same time.


Sharon Olds


#amount #could #extreme #hear #heard

In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles.


Dennis Banks


#davis #distance #first #los #los angeles

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.


Julius Caesar


#had #i #rather #rome #second

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.


Charles Caleb Colton


#know #known #live #village #would

During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village.


George Crook


#canon #during #elsewhere #engagement #force

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


#ankles #around #asked #chains #forge

There are 10,000 local governments in the state of New York. Ten thousand! Town, village, lighting district, water district, sewer district, a special district to count the other districts in case you missed a district.


Andrew Cuomo


#count #district #districts #governments #lighting

The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?


Imran Khan


#children #civilised #did #doing #eliminate