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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others. ”
I think there's a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands - which is where my family is from - in Ireland. ”
For me, now, working and children is it. There's nothing more to life. ”
I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent. ”
The seed is a household object but at the same time it is a revolutionary symbol. ”
Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you. ”
I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads. ”
Every family in Konya has at least one shoemaker in their midst, and I am one of those families. ”
When I was a boy in Desuq, Egypt, a city on the Rosetta branch of the Nile, about 50 miles east of Alexandria, my family lived steps away from the local landmark, a mosque named for a 13th-century Sufi sheik. ”
The dream of my family was for me to be an educated person. ”