Alice Crary famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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In our efforts to get human beings empirically into focus in ethics, we have a standing obligation not only to revisit and, if necessary, rework our conception of human importance, but also to ensure that our best conception is indeed the lens through which we look at our fellow human beings.
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All human beings - not merely neuro-typicals - need to be seen in ethics in the light of a conception of what is humanly important.
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In ethics all individual humans are rightly seen, not only as beings to whom things matter, but as beings who accordingly merit concern and solicitude.
-- Alice Crary
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But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.
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Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.
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Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.
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Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.
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One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.
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Focus attention and energy on making a difference in the lives of others, and success might follow as a by-product.
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Film is a time capsule. If I have a lack of dedication or focus, it's permanently there as a negative reminder.
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In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.
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You see the world, you end up in jail three or four times, you accumulate experience. And it gives you something to say. If you don't have anything to say then you shouldn't be making films. It's nothing to do with what lens you're using.
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The longer we view ourselves through a distorted lens, the more likely we are to believe a distorted truth.
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