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To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was. ↗

I mean, in general, the danger is from Oriental faiths and Islam. ↗

The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing th orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalist’s work. ↗

— Edward W. Said

#middle-east #orientalism #west #islam

Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses. ↗

— Rick Ross

#also #campuses #efforts #general #helpful

Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric. ↗

— Edward Said

#almost #could #european #every #homer

Germany is very free-trade oriented. ↗

— Gerhard Schroder

#germany #oriented #very

I'm very goal oriented. ↗

— David Schwimmer

#i #oriented #very

Fortunately, I was supposed to look confused and disoriented because, God, I felt that way. ↗

— Dick York

#confused #disoriented #felt #fortunately #god

If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that heterosexuality issues from a disappointed homosexuality? ↗

— Judith Butler

#homosexuality #sex #sexual-orientation #sexuality #equality

We cannot keep turning our backs on gay and lesbian Americans. I have fought too hard and too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up against discrimination based on sexual orientation. ↗

— John Lewis

#equal-rights #gays #lesbians #racial-discrimination #sexual-orientation