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• The profit orientation is only one orientation of a person. The same people who are interested in profit-making are also selfless. I am not saying that capitalist theory is wrong. I am saying that it has not been interpreted and practiced fully.

  Muhammad Yunus

  People, Selfless, Profit

  "Create social business funds in each country and city". Interview with David Bornstein, www.thedailystar.net. April 19, 2013.

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  There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color - nothing - no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We're all deserving of love.

  Sandra Bullock

  Love, Life, Race

  Oscar Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Acceptance Speech, delivered 7 March 2010

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• I suppose that I inherited the same vocabulary and world view as most black Christians do, most Christians in general, to be sure. It was heterosexist in the sense that it took the heterosexual orientation as the norm from which to start as the given. And everything that fell outside of that was not acceptable.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Christian, Views, Vocabulary

  "Gay Marriage Divides Black Religious Leaders". Interview with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 15, 2009.

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• Whether sexual orientation can change or not, hearts can change and turn any sexual orientation into an occasion for the glory of Christ. Those with same-sex attraction glorify Christ through sexual abstinence and through the enrichment of significant Christ-exalting relationships in other ways.

  John Piper

  Sex, Heart, Way

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• Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Beautiful, Technology, Demand

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. To retain that orientation into adulthood, so that consciousness is not a burden but a joy, is the mark of the successfully developed human being.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Children, Joy, Mind

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• My morality and faith are choices. My sexual orientation however isn't.

  Anthony Venn-Brown

  Choices, Morality

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  All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.

  Harvey Milk

  Motivational, Gay, People

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• All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, can properly be used as the basis for either rejection or discrimination.

  John Shelby Spong

  Respect, Race, Ethnicity

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• Only the heart knows the correct answer. Most people think the heart is mushy and sentimental. But it's not. The heart is intuitive; it's holistic, it's contextual, it's relational. It doesn't have a win-lose orientation. It taps into the cosmic computer - the field of pure potentiality, pure knowledge, and infinite organizing power - and takes everything into account. At times it may not even seem rational, but the heart has a computing ability that is far more accurate and far more precise than anything within the limits of rational thought.

  Deepak Chopra

  Heart, Winning, Thinking

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.33, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• In asking for miracles, we are seeking a practical goal: a return to inner peace. We’re not asking for something outside us to change, but for something inside us to change. We’re looking for a softer orientation to life.

  Marianne Williamson

  Goal, Miracle, Inner Peace

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone or something outside of oneself, union that allows one to put oneself into relationship with others, to feel one with others, without limiting the sense of integrity and independence. Love is a productive orientation for which it is essential that there be present at the same time: concern, responsibility, and respect for and knowledge of the object of the union.

  Erich Fromm

  Life, Integrity, Believe

  Erich Fromm (1997). “On Being Human”, p.101, A&C Black

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• Once man has lost the fundamental orientation which unifies his existence, he breaks down into the multiplicity of his desires; in refusing to await the time of promise, his life-story disintegrates into a myriad of unconnected instants.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Promise, Desire

  "Lumen Fidei". Book by Pope Francis, 2013.

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• The battle rages eternal, though the race, religion, gender or sexual orientation of those discriminated against changes regularly. Maybe man’s need for a scapegoat is genetically programmed into him.

  Josh Lanyon

  Men, Race, Battle

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• As we continued to talk, going through the motions of getting to know each other, I realized that we already did know each other, as well as any two people could. We’d known each other for years, in the most intimate way possible. We’d connected on a purely mental level. I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.

  Ernest Cline

  Two, Skin Color, Years

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.321, Random House

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• The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears.

  Erich Fromm

  Real, Love Is, Objectivity

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.119, Open Road Media

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• The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.

  Frantz Fanon

  Men, White Man, Inferiority

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.60, Pluto Press

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• In a perfect world, I don't think it [one's sexual orientation] is anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted.

  Anderson Cooper

  Thinking, Perfect, World

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• As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously tough and resilient, and capable of striking back in unexpected ways. These extraordinary capacities of life have been ignored by the practitioners of chemical control who have brought to their task no "high-minded orientation," no humility before the vast forces with which they tamper.

  Rachel Carson

  Humility, Men, Delicate Life

  Silent Spring ch. 17 (1962)

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• Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories

  Ben Okri

  Mad, Silence, Stories

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• If one introspects and says with humility of heart: "I do not yet know the truth, but I have to find it" , then in time this humility may be rewarded and one may achieve one's ascent. If this happens, the persons attention comes into the center, neither on the left, nor on the right. That is, neither dominated by his conditionings from the past nor the orientations of his ambitious ego. Such a balanced person is very well suited for Self Realization, by which he will know the truth in its absolute form.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Either we have hope within us or we don't It is a dimension of the soul, and is not essentially dependent on some particular observation of the World or observation of the situation. Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart.

  Vaclav Havel

  Heart, Grieving, Soul

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• You are so much more, than your orientation, you know it and I know it.

  Adam Lambert

  Knows

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• Love overcomes hate. Love has no color. Love has no orientation. All is love.

  Adam Lambert

  Hate, Color, Overcoming

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If someone is identifying themselves based on their orientation toward a person of the same gender, then that seems to me to be a self-evident disorder.

  Scott Lively

  Gay, Self, Gender

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