The following is a list of some paramagnetic elements and their magnetic susceptabilties:
Uranium: 0.0004
Platinum: 0.00026
Aluminum: 0.000022
Sodium: 0.0000072
Oxygen: 0.0000019
I put the values in decimal form so one can see just how small they are. For comparision, iron, a ferromagnetic material, has a magnetic susceptablility of about 1000!
Paramagnetic materials are so weakly magnetic that the effects are negligible except in very large fields of several teslas. The effect, once it becomes noticeable, is a very slight attraction in the direction of the field. A material that is very slightly repelled by a magnetic field is diamagnetic.