God help the person who had the same name as a famous person because all that information would be ascribed to him and presumed to be valid.

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This image, and a heart attack that he took as a message from God, persuaded Mr Williams to make public the memos he had secretly photocopied.

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As she was lifted from the rubble, crowds that had gathered broke into cheers of "God is great!"

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The latter group included many Greeks living in Asia Minor, who had been liberated from alien barbarian Persian domination by Alexander, and who worshipped him as a god.

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Yet Eva thought the place had less to do with God and his angels than with an ordinary, and understandable, desire to have things continue as they had always done.

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She said she had no choice in her calling, and had to follow the path set for her by God, even if her work sometimes brought as much criticism as praise.

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She said Ms Gowing had been a "wonderful daughter" to their parents, and described her as "a gift from God".

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Most recently the popular guru Asharam, known to his followers as "Bapu" or father, told followers that the tragedy would not have happened if the victim had chanted God's name and fallen at the feet of the attackers.

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