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  1. orphans

    An orphan (from the Greek: ορφανός, romanized: orphanós) is a child whose parents have died.In common usage, only a child who has lost both parents due to death is called an orphan. When referring to animals, only the mother's condition is usually relevant (i.e. if the female parent has gone, the offspring is an orphan, regardless of the father's condition).

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ORPHANS in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ORPHANS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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  1. Robert Gonzalez:

    The father can't work, until their next court date, they don't have permission to work so they must rely on people like me who are willing to help. It's worse for Venezuelan migrants because they're orphans in a sense. There's no Venezuelan embassy or consulates in United States they can run to if they need help or a copy of a document from back home.

  2. Thomas Sowell:

    The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about 'social justice' all you want. But what death taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get re-elected. That is not social justice or any other kind of justice.

  3. Hillary Clinton:

    Turning away orphans, applying a religious test, discriminating against Muslims, slamming the door on every single Syrian refugee--is just not who we are. We’re better than that.

  4. Rodin Eckenroth/Getty -RRB- Krupa:

    I think everybody that's Polish and lives there, of course they're worried what's next. I'm just so proud of the whole Polish community, everybody volunteering – doctors, nurses, people making food, people are organizing toys for the kids, there are so many orphans and animals in need.

  5. Carol McIntosh:

    We believe that the best form of teaching our scholars is having them face-to-face, but we also understand that if we send sick kids home, it is a chance that those kids could become orphans. And I think that is just too high of a price to pay at this time.

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