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Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can. ↗

— Michael Pollan

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So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

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The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another. ↗

— Pete du Pont

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There were some entrepreneurial du Ponts that are a little different from the heads of the corporations today. ↗

— Pete du Pont

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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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