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• Love is not a feeling; it's a sensation. Drinking water when you're thirsty is a sensation, not a feeling. Being in nature or swimming in the sea is a sensation, not a feeling. Lying down when you're tired is sensational, not a feeling, although you may say it feels good. Feeling is an emotional interpretation of experience and these sensations don't need interpretation; they are just good or right. Making physical love rightly is a sensation, not a feeling. So is the love of God. The same goes for joy and beauty; both are sensational.'

  Barry Long

  Life, Lying, Drinking

  "Love is not a feeling" by Barry Long, What is Enlightenment magazine, Volume 4, Number 2, 1995.

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• Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Adversity, Facts, Human Nature

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• You explore beautiful songs & create your own interpretation of them.

  Joe Lovano

  Music, Beautiful, Song

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• That's one of the central problems of history, isn't it, sir? The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we need to know the history of the historian in order to understand the version that is being put in front of us.

  Julian Barnes

  Order, Needs, Facts

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• Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.

  James Joyce

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• His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy.

  Juliet Marillier

  Crazy, Men, Ordinary

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “The Dark Mirror”, p.552, Pan Macmillan

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• I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music.

  Vladimir Ashkenazy

  Believe, Glasses, Window

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• As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is molded to suit the making of the myth. Man is a romantic at heart and will always put aside dull, plodding reason for the excitement of an enigma. As Doc had pointed out, mystery, not logic, is what gives us hope and keeps us believing in a force greater than our own insignificance.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Believe, Heart, Men

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• Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are always changing. This is what makes history exciting - that we can always find something new in what is old.

  Ambeth R. Ocampo

  Looks, Way, Facts

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• There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Simple, Way

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.512, Anchor

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• Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you, the only possible way it could be. Less often a painter will describe an event in a way that fits into your interpretation of that event so perfectly that it becomes the event itself.

  Vincent Price

  Events, Way, Sometimes

  Vincent Price (2016). “I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography”, p.142, Open Road Media

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• Coldplay songs deliver an amorphous, irrefutable interpretation of how being in love is supposed to feel, and people find themselves wanting that feeling for real. They want men to adore them like Lloyd Dobler would, and they want women to think like Aimee Mann, and they expect all their arguments to sound like Sam Malone and Diane Chambers. They think everything will work out perfectly in the end (just like it did for Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones and Nick Hornby's Rob Fleming), and they don't stop believing because Journey's Steve Perry insists we should never do that.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Song, Real, Believe

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• I like to write music that I feel like I would listen to. It's like my interpretation of what I want to hear.

  Takudzwa Victoria Rosa Maidza

  Writing, Want, Feels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's a fun thing to do, to put yourself in the service of something if you think you can add an interpretation. It's no different than any other storytelling.

  Joss Whedon

  Fun, Thinking, Different

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• The [Frank] Sinatra interpretation of the music, as opposed to some other music that you were listening to - where you felt like they were singing at you - you felt Sinatra was singing to you. It's a very intimate art form, and that's what I responded to - the intimacy of his performance.

  Robert Davi

  Art, Listening, Singing

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• How do you feel?” she asked, trying to fluff his pillow. “Other than terrible, I mean.” He moved his head slightly to the side. It seemed to be a sickly interpretation of a shrug. “Of course you’re feeling terrible,” she clarified, “but is there any change? More terrible? Less terrible?” He made no response. “The same amount of terrible?

  Julia Quinn

  Mean, Feelings, Trying

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• OUR ORDINATION: Sir Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1747 About the times of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition.

  Isaac Newton

  Men, Attention, Body

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• Satanism advocates practicing a modified form of the Golden Rule. Our interpretation of this rule is: "Do unto others as they do unto you"; because if you "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," and they, in turn, treat you badly, it goes against human nature to continue to treat them with consideration. You should do unto others as you would have them do unto you, but if your courtesy is not returned, they should be treated with the wrath they deserve.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Wrath, Satanic, Golden

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• The only thing we took out was the Constitution of the State of Mississippi and the interpretation of the Constitution. We had 63,000 people registered on the Freedom Registration form. And we tried from every level to go into the regular Democratic Party medium. We tried from the precinct level. The 16th of June when they were holding precinct meetings all across the state, I was there and there was eight of us there to attend the meeting, and they had the door locked at 10 o'clock in the morning. This is what's happening in the State of Mississippi.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Morning, Party, June

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked at the economic debasement of the Negro at times almost to the point of starvation.

  Carter G. Woodson

  School, Black, Taught

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.4, Book Tree

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• What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences.

  Tony Robbins

  Positive Thinking, Thinking, Feels

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• The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere, where it plays a part as indestructible as any other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Lying, Play

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.7

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• Feelings, by themselves, do not create problems. It is rather the tendency to interpret and analyze them. When out of habit you believe those interpretations, it is there that the suffering begins.

  Mooji

  Believe, Feelings, Suffering

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• Leaving religious texts open too interpretation is the downfall of religion itself. If it is truly the word of God then there is no room for interpretation; you either take all of it or none. There is no selective belief

  Stephen Colbert

  Religious, Leaving, Rooms

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• The difference between destruction of the immune system and stimulation of the immune system is an interpretation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Differences, Destruction, Stimulation

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