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Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

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By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#creating #focus #focus groups #greater #groups

I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

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I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#architecture #art #art form #aspect #certainly

I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#because #else #fantasy #frustrating #frustrating thing

I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#genetic #i #making #mean #modification

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#agree #american #american politics #black #black hole

Economy consists in a due and proper application of the means afforded according to the ability of the employer and the situation chosen; care being taken that the expenditure is prudently conducted. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#according #afforded #application #being #care

It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#doubts #fail #how #learned

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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