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• Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Civilization, Needs, Today

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• I must choose my words carefully in order to avoid any negative interpretation. Among politicians, this is a tactic known as lying.

  Pat Paulsen

  Lying, Order, Negative

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• The universe is an emanation of mind. As human consciousness evolves in an accelerated spiral, we are being compelled to realize that our minds are manifesting reality to an ever-increasing extent- our collective shadow-projections of wasteful technologies, wars, and weaponry reflect subtler interior regions of our psyche and the discordant deceptions in our intimate relationships. If this interpretation is valid, it forces upon us a concomitant responsibility, a grave burden.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  War, Responsibility, Technology

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• Our problems are not with the data, itself, but arise from our interpretation of the data.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Learning, Data, Problem

  Bruce H. Lipton (2010). “Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There from Here”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The statistical method is required in the interpretation of figures which are at the mercy of numerous influences, and its object is to determine whether individual influences can be isolated and their effects measured. The essence of the method lies in the determination that we are really comparing like with like, and that we have not overlooked a relevant factor which is present in Group A and absent from Group B. The variability of human beings in their illnesses and in their reactions to them is a fundamental reason for the planned clinical trial and not against it.

  Austin Bradford Hill

  Determination, Lying, Science

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• What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.

  Epictetus

  Life, Thinking, Events

  Epictetus, Sharon Lebell (2013). “The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• There are lots of different interpretations of the word 'prodigy.' My own is of someone who is talented and tries to help other children. So in that respect I could be called one, although I don't think I'll go off the rails.

  Adora Svitak

  Children, Helping Others, Thinking

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• Yoga is an ancient discipline in which physical postures, breath practice, meditation, and philosophical study are tools for achieving liberation. In my interpretation, achieving liberation in yoga means learning how to be present with everything that arises, whether it is pain or pleasure, sadness or joy, failure or success. And to be present with whatever arises, I believe we must not only be aware of what is arising but we must also be able to see all things that arise as equal, with detachment.

  Rodney Yee

  Pain, Believe, Yoga

  Rodney Yee (2004). “Moving Toward Balance: 8 Weeks of Yoga with Rodney Yee”, p.9, Rodale

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• I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.

  M. Ward

  Song, People, Records

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• It is my interpretation from the Koran that all people have equal rights. That means men and women, Muslims and non-Muslims too. Oppression doesn't exist in Islam. And in a society where all people have equal rights, that means all people should make decisions equally... This doesn't mean that we're changing God's law, It just means we're reinterpreting laws according to the development of science - and the realities of the times.

  Yousef Saanei

  Mean, Reality, Men

  "Iran at the Millenium, by Robin Wright". Excerpt from The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran (2001), www.pbs.org.

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• Sola scriptura means at least this: that the church's proclamation is always subject to potential correction from the canon. It is for this reason that we resist simply collapsing the text into the tradition of its interpretation and performance.

  Kevin Vanhoozer

  Mean, Church, Tradition

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• Religions are vague, of course. This means that they are easy to follow -you can interpret their prescriptions as you like. but it also means that it is easy to slip up -there is always some injunction you are violating. But Islam has no religious establishment - no popes, no bishops - that can declare by fiat which is the correct interpretation. As a result, the decision to oppose the state on the grounds that is insufficiently Islamic belongs to anyone who wishes to exercise it.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Religious, Islamic, Mean

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• Before the use of asteroids, the only significators of the feminine in traditional chart interpretation were the Moon and Venus.

  Demetra George

  Moon, Astrology, Use

  Demetra George, Douglas Bloch (2003). “Asteroid Goddesses: The Mythology, Psychology, and Astrology of the Re-Emerging Feminine”, p.18, Nicolas-Hays, Inc.

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• We turn pain into suffering by adding on all kinds of beliefs, interpretations and judgments to it.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Pain, Suffering, Belief

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• Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal journey in solitude!
  They have to be metaphorical, because their interpretation will be different for each individual life!

  Fred Van Lente

  Journey, Solitude, Different

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• In the same way 'Lord of the Rings' was an interpretation of the book, 'The Hobbit' is being treated the same way. It will be faithfully represented with a fresh interpretation.

  Andy Serkis

  Book, Way, Lord

  "Gollum Actor Andy Serkis to Serve as Second Unit Director on 'The Hobbit' (Exclusive)" by Carolyn Giardina, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 6, 2011.

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• History is a matter of interpretation, but you have to start with certain facts.

  Peter Kuznick

  Matter, Facts, Certain

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Not getting our needs fulfilled is painful - but it's a sweet pain, not suffering, which is what comes from life-alienated thinking and interpretation.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Sweet, Pain, Communication

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• To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mind, Mathematics, Invention

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• To me, healing means you have to recognize there is a wound and you try to understand what the sources of the wound are, which means you try to tell a story about how it came to be. So you have to engage in some historical interpretation.

  Cornel West

  Healing, Mean, Historical

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode of colonising the future. The more or less constant, profound and rapid momentum of change characteristic of modern institutions, coupled with structured reflexivity, mean that on the level of everyday practice as well as philosophical [Seitenwechsel] interpretation, nothing can be taken for granted. What is acceptable/appropriate/recommended behaviour today may be seen differently tomorrow in the light of altered circumstances or incoming knowledge-claims.

  Anthony Giddens

  Philosophical, Taken, Mean

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• It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of what happened. We each have totally different ideas of what was said, what was intended, and what really took place.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Ideas, Interesting, Different

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• The physicist may be satisfied when he has the mathematical scheme and knows how to use for the interpretation of the experiments. But he has to speak about his results also to non-physicists who will not be satisfied unless some explanation is given in plain language. Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be the criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Philosophy, Plain Language, Understanding

  "Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science". Book by Werner Heisenberg, 1958.

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• The world! It is a word capable of as diverse interpretations or misinterpretations as the thing itself - a thing by various people supposed to belong to heaven, man, or the devil, or alternatively to all three.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Men, People, Heaven

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 9), 1858.

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• I'm not trying to be romantic. I think you can tell when people are trying to be sexy onstage. When I was doing 'All the Way,' I was really thinking about my wife. People don't know my personal experience, but they can tell it's an honest interpretation.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Sexy, Thinking, People

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