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Letter "V" » village
«There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enough -- the bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not.»
Author: Floyd Dell
| Keywords:
bum, bummed, bums, cigarettes, emulate, emulates, emulating, sticks, sums, The Teacher, The Village, village, whittle, whittled, whittles
«The Old Testament is tribal in its provinciality; its god is a local god, and its village police and sanitary regulations are erected into eternal laws»
Author: John Macy
| About:
God,
Law and lawyers,
Religion
| Keywords:
erected, local, regulation, regulations, sanitary, testament, tribal, village
«The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.»
«My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings, And yet recalls the very hour 'Twas noon by yonder village tower, And on the last blue noon in May The wind came briskly up this way, Crisping the brook beside the road; Then,»
«The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| About:
Internet
| Keywords:
global, global village, internet, square, The Internet, the town, town, village
«The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
electronic, global, global village, independence, re-create, re-created, The Image, village
«OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were frequently seen, always walking in his shadow, when he had one, but were finally driven away by the village notary, a holy man; but they took the peasant with them, for he vanished utterly. A devil thrown out of a woman by the Archbishop of Rheims ran through the trees, pursued by a hundred persons, until the open country was reached, where by a leap higher than a church spire he escaped into a bird. A chaplain in Cromwell's army exorcised a soldier's obsessing devil by throwing the soldier into the water, when the devil came to the surface. The soldier, unfortunately, did not.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Obsessions
| Keywords:
archbishop, Archbishop of, common soldier, Cromwell, escaped, evil spirit, exorcise, exorcised, High Church, holy man, holy person, notaries, notary, Obsessing, obsession, occupied, once more, peasant, Rheims, spire, spires, The Soldier, The Village, The Week, vanished, vexed, village
«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 enema bag and filled it with rocks, and he would go around and whap the other children across the face with it. Man, I think my heart almost broke. Later the boy came up and offered to give me the toy. This was too much! I reached out my hand, but then he ran away. I chased him down and took the enema bag. He cried a little, but that's the way of these people.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
across, bag, breaking away, break away, broke, but then, chased, cried, enema, enemas, filled, gotten, go across, go around, hands down, hand down, offered, Old Boys, old hand, one of the boys, poor boy, ran, reached, rocks, run across, run around, The Children, The Toy, The Village, this one, This Was, took, toy, toyed, toys, toy with, village, whap
«Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain.»
«There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher- the clergyman»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
clergyman, clergymen, extinguisher, The Teacher, torch, torches, village
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