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• We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

  Edward Sapir

  Choices, Community, Language

  Edward Sapir (1949). “Culture, Language, and Personality: Selected Essays”, p.69, Univ of California Press

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• It's why I get miffed at all the dashing around in recent zombie films. It completely misses the point; transforms the threat to a straightforward physical danger from the zombies themselves, rather than our own inability to avoid them and these films are about us, not them. There's far more meat on the bones of the latter, far more juicy interpretation to get our teeth into. The first zombie is by comparison thin and one dimensional and ironically, it is down to all the exercise.

  Simon Pegg

  Exercise, Missing, Zombie

  "Nerd Do Well". Book by Simon Pegg, www.wired.com. 2010.

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• 'We live' writes Pursewarden somewhere 'lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time — not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation oа reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Writing, Unique, Reality

  "The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea".

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• Johnny was sobbing in shuddering gasps, telling me his small tale of woe, that the world was suddently different, and that he wanted me to make it better, right now please." --Liadan's interpretation of her baby's cries.

  Juliet Marillier

  Baby, Different, World

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• Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought.

  Saint Augustine

  Thinking, Doe, Scripture

  St. Augustine, Saint Augustine, J. F. Shaw (2009). “On Christian Doctrine”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• Constitutional interpretation is not the business of the Court only, but also properly the business of all branches of government.

  Edwin Meese

  Government, Branches, Court

  United States. Dept. of Justice, Edwin Meese (1989). “Major Policy Statements of the Attorney General: Edwin Meese III, 1985-1988”

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• There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books upon books than upon any other subject; we do nothing but comment upon one another. Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Scarcity, Comment

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.1093, 谷月社

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• Is your work an interpretation of your understanding of reality, or is it simply a picture of your feelings?

  Millard Sheets

  Reality, Understanding, Feelings

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• The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Reality, Literature, Patterns

  Gabriel García Márquez's Nobel Prize acceptance speech on the role of a writer, www.farnamstreetblog.com. 1982.

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• Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Facts, Cognitive Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

  "The Will to Power". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, aphorism 552, 1888.

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• Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.

  Hans Haacke

  Educational, Museums, Views

  "Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre, and Elsewhere". Book by Michael Kimmelman, 1998.

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• All interpretations made by a scientist are hypotheses, and all hypotheses are tentative. They must forever be tested and they must be revised if found to be unsatisfactory. Hence, a change of mind in a scientist, and particularly in a great scientist, is not only not a sign of weakness but rather evidence for continuing attention to the respective problem and an ability to test the hypothesis again and again.

  Ernst Mayr

  Science, Forever, Mind

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• In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Real, Criticism

  Evergreen Review Dec. 1964

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• The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena. The verbal interpretation, on the other hand - i.e., the metaphysics of quantum theory - is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.

  Fritjof Capra

  Science, Acceptance, Successful

  "The Tao of Physics". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1975.

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• The human race is facing all kinds of problems, and all we are doing is pointing fingers and saying, 'Your interpretation of the problem is different from my interpretations of the problem.

  Shane Smith

  Race, Different, Kind

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• The person viewing your work has no idea what the scene really looked like, nor do they care.

  Mike Svob

  Ideas, Care, Scene

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• Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

  John Berger

  Photography, Drawing, Doe

  John Berger (2015). “About Looking”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Look, I happen to agree with what George says about the interpretation of the New Testament, but I want to remind both of you to never play God.

  Billy Graham

  Play, Atheism, Looks

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• We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Aspect

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1967). “Zettel”, Univ of California Press

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• A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification.

  Xaviera Hollander

  Order, Punishment, Erotic

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• Painting, like music, has nothing to do with the reproduction of nature, nor interpretation of intellectual meanings. Whoever is able to feel the beauty of colors and forms has understood nonobjective painting.

  Hilla von Rebay

  Art, Color, Intellectual

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• The physical symptoms of fight or flight are what the human body has learned over thousands of years to operate efficiently and at the highest level...anxiety is a cognitive interpretation of that physical response.

  John Eliot

  Fighting, Light, Years

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• By its attempt to regulate and govern the private businesses, which are miscalled public accommodations in the bill, this proposal would inject the Government into the most sensitive areas of human contractual relations-agreements for personal services. In so doing, constitutional interpretations of long standing are being swept aside in favor of tortuous rationalizations which studiously ignore the constitutionally-forbidden imposition of involuntary servitude on citizens

  Strom Thurmond

  Agreement, Government, Long

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• The information was correct but the interpretations were not.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Information

  "AFTER THE WAR; Hussein's Perennial Optimist Reappears". New York Times, July 12, 2003.

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• While there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model it on the ways in which we get things right in physics.

  Hilary Putnam

  Philosophical, Trying, Way

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