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• I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman.

  Mitt Romney

  Marriage, Respect, Believe

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• Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.

  Karl Rahner

  Reality, Grace, Active

  "Meditations on the Sacraments". Book by Karl Rahner, Introduction, p. xi, 1977.

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• When you look at what [new generation] believe in, how they value diversity, how they believe in science, how they care about the environment, how they believe in, you know, everybody getting a fair shot, how they believe in not discriminating against people for sexual orientation and you know, their belief that we have to work with other countries to create a more peaceful world and to alleviate poverty, that's the majority an entire generation that's coming up behind us.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Believe, Diversity

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

  Camille Paglia

  Independent, Careers, America

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.87, Vintage

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• While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Believe, Gay, Bisexual

  "Cynthia Nixon Updates Her Controversial Statement: She Now Says She is 'Technically' Bisexual" by Gena Kaufman, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Given that sexual orientation is innate and that we are all, in theological terms, children of God, to deny access to some sacraments based on sexuality is as wrong as denying access to some sacraments based on race or gender.

  Jon Meacham

  Children, Race, Sexuality

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• I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

  Coretta Scott King

  Believe, Responsibility, Rights

  "Shadow in the Land : Homosexuality in America" by William Dannemeyer, (p. 148), 1989.

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• And another thing is that I think as a church whenever we become politically driven, we alienate at least 50 percent of the people that God called us to reach with our political orientations.

  T. D. Jakes

  God, Thinking, People

  "Interview: Bishop TD Jakes on Hell, Politics, Film Projects". Interview with Katherine T. Phan, www.christianpost.com. June 19, 2011.

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• Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

  Alan Dundes

  Expectations, Progress, Impossible

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• I think naturally my orientation is from my father.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Dad, Father, Thinking

  "The (Real) Governator". Interview With Lisa Depaulo, www.gq.com. December 14, 2011.

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• The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that.

  Alan Shepard

  Attitude, Airplane, Pilots

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• People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world.

  Gerard Way

  Selfish, Race, People

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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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• No matter what race we are, what ethnic background, sexual orientation, or what views we may have, we are all human. Unfortunately, not all humans see it that way.

  Erin Gruwell

  Race, Views, May

  The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell (2007). “The Freedom Writers Diary (Movie Tie-in Edition): How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them”, p.46, Broadway Books

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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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• We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Religious, Needs, Kind

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Jul 18, 2011

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• When I say my brother and his wife are heterosexual, that doesn't mean I'm talking about their sex lives. Likewise, when we say someone is gay, we're talking about sexual orientation, not their sexual activity.

  Vito Russo

  Brother, Sex, Mean

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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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• 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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• That's what running does to lives. It's not just exercise. It's not just achievement. It's a daily discipline that has nothing to do with speed, weight, social status, sexual orientation, political affiliation, where you live, what car you drive, or whether anyone anywhere loves you. It's about the slow and painful process of being the best you can be.

  Martin Dugard

  Running, Love You, Exercise

  Martin Dugard (2011). “To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person (and the World a Better Place)”, p.230, Rodale

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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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• 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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• 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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• I don't think it's worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art - there were no old directions, either. Chinese art has never had any clear orientation.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Thinking, Chinese

  "Ai Weiwei: 'China's art world does not exist'" by Ai Weiwei:, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2012.

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