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• I know that the black man's sick attitude toward the white woman is
  a revolutionary sickness: it keeps him perpetually out of harmony with the
  system that is oppressing him. Many whites flatter themselves with the idea that the Negro male's
  lust and desire for the white dream girl is purely an esthetic attraction,
  but nothing could be further from the truth. His motivation is often of such
  a bloody, hateful, bitter, and malignant nature that whites would really
  be hard pressed to find it flattering.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Girl, Dream, Motivation

  Eldridge Cleaver (2015). “Target Zero: A Life in Writing”, p.49, Macmillan

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• The Goddess falls in love with Herself, drawing forth her own emanation, which takes on a life of its own. Love of self for self is the creative force of the universe. Desire is the primal energy, and that energy is erotic: the attraction of lover to beloved, of planet to star, the lust of electron for proton. Love is the glue that holds the world together.

  Starhawk

  Falling In Love, Inspirational Love, Stars

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Love is not sexual intercourse. Love is not vital attraction and interchange. Love is not the heart’s hunger for affection. Love is a mighty vibration coming straight from the One. And only the very pure and very strong are capable of receiving and manifesting it.

  Mirra Alfassa

  Strong, Heart, Love Is

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• What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life

  Octavio Paz

  Views, Civilization, Differences

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• Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to be male. Female heterosexuality is a set of social institutions and practices... Those definitions... are about the oppression and exploitation of women by men.

  Marilyn Frye

  Animal, Men, Heterosexuality Is

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• God made every one of us a sexual being, and that is good. Attraction and arousal are the natural, spontaneous, God-given responses to physical beauty, while lust is a deliberate act of the will.

  Rick Warren

  Lust, Arousal, Spontaneous

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• Clothes became my attraction and obsession early. I wasn't so interested in dressing myself because I was not my object of desire.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Clothes, Desire, Obsession

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• Scotty Moore plays one of the first really amazing riffs in rock history on Heartbreak Hotel with Elvis Presley ... it was dangerous, it scared everybodys parents, which was part of the attraction then - as it still is now... it totally blindsided me and made me want to get a guitar and do that.

  Roger McGuinn

  Music, Rocks, Guitar

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• After the period of sex-attraction has passed, women have no power in America.

  Elizabeth Bisland

  Sex, America, Periods

  Elizabeth Bisland (1906). “The Secret Life: Being the Book of a Heretic”

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• Costs merely register competing attractions.

  Frank Knight

  Risk, Cost, Competing

  Frank H. Knight (2012). “Risk, Uncertainty and Profit”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• In the West, there's a myth that freedom means free expression-that to follow all desires wherever they take one is true freedom. In fact, as one serves the mind, one sees that following desires, attractions, and repulsions is not at all freedom, but is a kind of bondage. A mind filled with desires and grasping inevitably entails great suffering. Freedom is not to be gained through the ability to perform certain external actions. True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom.

  Jack Kornfield

  Mean, Expression, Mind

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• The most dangerous man in the world is the contemplative who is guided by nobody.  He trusts his own visions.  He obeys the attractions of an interior voice but will not listen to other men.  He identifies the will of God with anything that makes him feel, within his own heart, a big, warm, sweet interior glow.  The sweeter and the warmer the feeling is, the more he is convinced of his own infallibility.

  Thomas Merton

  Sweet, Heart, Men

  Thomas Merton (1962). “Seeds of contemplation”

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• The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Long, Giving

  Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.3, PublicAffairs

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• We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.

  James D. Houston

  Thinking, Play, Sensual

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• When you are focused upon something that you desire, then through the Law of Attraction, more and more thoughts about what you desire will be drawn, and you will feel greater positive emotion. You can speed the creation of something simply by giving it more attention—the Law of Attraction takes care of the rest and brings to you the essence of the subject of your thought.

  Esther Hicks

  Law Of Attraction, Essence, Giving

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2009). “The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham”, p.53, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Your thoughts and beliefs of the past have created this moment, and all the moments up to this moment. What you are now choosing to believe and think and say will create the next moment and the next day and the next month and the next year.

  Louise Hay

  Believe, Past, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Mar 31, 2015

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• Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.

  Marsilio Ficino

  Thinking, Love Is, Magic

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• When you're feeling joyful, you are giving joy, and you'll receive back joyful experiences, joyful situations, and joyful people, wherever you go. From the smallest experience of your favorite song playing on the radio to bigger experiences of receiving a pay raise -- all of the circumstances you experiences are the law of attraction responding to your feeling of joy.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Song, Law Of Attraction

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• The law of attraction is a law of nature. It is as impartial and impersonal as the law of gravity is. It is precise and it is exact

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Gravity, Precise

  Rhonda Byrne (2008). “The Secret”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• Often when people first hear this part of the Secret they recall events in history where masses of lives were lost, and they find it incomprehensible that so many people could have attracted themselves to the event. By the law of attraction, they had to be on the same frequency as the event. . . .those thoughts of fear, separation, and powerlessness, if persistent, can attract them to being in the wrong place at the wrong time

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, People, Secret

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• Visualization is the process of creating pictures in your mind of yourself enjoying what you want. When you visualize, you generate powerful thoughts and feelings of having it now. The law of attraction then returns that reality to you, just as you saw it in your mind.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Powerful, Reality, Law Of Attraction

  Rhonda Byrne (2008). “The Secret”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.

  Marina Warner

  Spring, Opposites, Desire

  Marina Warner, Sophie Herxheimer, Gilbert Adair (1994). “Wonder Tales”, p.3, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• There are those who keep out of mischief, and there are the adventurers, ‘ he said. “We racing drivers are adventurers; the more difficult something is, the greater the attraction that comes from it.

  Juan Manuel Fangio

  Racing, Said, Difficult

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• I have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a seamless white paper background. Although it makes my life more complicated, I prefer to take my camera out into the street... and places that are out of bounds for photographers have always had a special attraction for me.

  Helmut Newton

  White, Special, Cameras

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• I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual’s curiosity and his or her quest to satisfy it.

  Scott Turow

  Thinking, Offering, Curiosity

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