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• A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.

  Euripides

  Clever, Medicine, Sick

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.118, University of Chicago Press

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• The Time that Remains is a way of interpreting a certain ambience or emotion. These are the stories that my father told me over the course of fifteen or twenty years. I used to listen to him. From the cowardly part of my character, I'm always in fear of not telling the right story. I'm not interested in making epics.

  Elia Suleiman

  Father, Character, Epic

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• Maybe we need more dialogue in terms of our faith, in terms of those who are believers, or even nonbelievers, about that aspect, and what that might mean if you were interpreting. You don't have to believe it; maybe you could draw a metaphor from it.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Believe, Mean, Needs

  "A chat with Joseph Fiennes - star of historical thriller "Risen". Interview with Ann Schneible, www.catholicnewsagency.com. February 10, 2016.

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• I always try to connect with what's happening in the world-reality, modernity, the 21st century, all that - and with Jil it started to feel very disconnected from the outside and how women were looking at fashion, experiencing fashion, interpreting fashion.

  Raf Simons

  Fashion, Reality, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The theatre-acting, creating, interpreting - means total involvement, the totality of heart, mind and spirit.

  Stella Adler

  Heart, Mean, Creating

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• Whether interpreting the Constitution or filling in the blanks of a law or a regulation, every word of the court's opinion can widen or narrow our rights as Americans and either protect us or leave us more vulnerable to any winds that blow.

  Herb Kohl

  Blow, Rights, Wind

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Most Americans want judges who will stick to interpreting the law rather than making it.

  Sam Brownback

  Law, Judging, Want

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• I happen to be a scientist. My background is in nuclear physics. I was a nuclear engineer. But I don't see any incompatibility at all with my religious faith and God the creator of everything and the incompatibility between when the earth was created as specified in the Bible. I don't see any incompatibility there because those that were interpreting God's overall message didn't know anything about modern-day science.

  Jimmy Carter

  Religious, Messages, Nuclear

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• To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to these pictures firsthand experience begins to retreat, to seem more and more trivial. While it once seemed that pictures had the function of interpreting reality, it now seems they have usurped it. It therefore becomes imperative to understand the picture itself, not in order to uncover a lost reality, but to determine how a picture becomes a signifying structure of its own accord.

  Douglas Crimp

  Reality, Order, Cinema

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• The dialectical change of mind that occurs in Buddhism is not simply the assimilation of a new philosophical basis or religious basis for viewing and interpreting experience. Rather it is the complete structural revision of that which is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Buddhist, Philosophical

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• In the field of consciousness research-and also in physics and astronomy-we are breaking past the cause-and-effect, mechanistic way of interpreting things. In the biological sciences, there is a vitalism coming in that goes much further toward positing a common universal consciousness of which our brain is simply an organ. Consciousness does not come from the brain. The brain is an organ of consciousness. It focuses consciousness and pulls it in and directs it through a time and space field. But the antecedent of that is the universal consciousness of which we are all just a part.

  Joseph Campbell

  Past, Space, Brain

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• In my judgment the people of no nation can lose their liberty so long as a Bill of Rights like ours survives and its basic purposes are conscientiously interpreted, enforced and respected so as to afford continuous protection against old, as well as new, devices and practices which might thwart those purposes. I fear to see the consequences of the Court's practice of substituting its own concepts of decency and fundamental justice for the language of the Bill of Rights as its point of departure in interpreting and enforcing that Bill of Rights.

  Hugo Black

  Rights, Law, Practice

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• Scientific wealth tends to accumulate according to the law of compound interest. Every addition to knowledge of the properties of matter supplies the physical scientist with new instrumental means for discovering and interpreting phenomena of nature, which in their turn afford foundations of fresh generalisations, bringing gains of permanent value into the great storehouse of natural philosophy.

  Lord Kelvin

  Philosophy, Mean, Law

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• By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Nature, Freedom, People

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ignat Avsey (1998). “The Karamazov Brothers”, p.393, Oxford Paperbacks

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• While the scientist, on the one hand, is concerned with giving a faithful description of facts, on the other, he has the equally important task of construing them in relation to some explanatory conjecture. Similarly the historian has a double duty: both of reporting the past as nearly as possible as it passed or was lived through by men at the time (without doctoring up events to fit later developments or some more "enlightened reading" of them); and second, of interpreting their import in the light of a present hypothesis.

  Marie Taylor Collins Swabey

  Reading, Science, Past

  Marie Taylor Collins Swabey (1954). “The judgment of history”

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• I sensed that women wanted to be a little different. My fluidity gave them a way of interpreting their bodies in a more personal, individual way.

  Giorgio Armani

  Different, Body, Fluidity

  Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• When I do a film, usually I work from my director. That's my boss. The director is interpreting the writer's vision, and we all interpret it, and they create their own vision as well.

  Juliette Lewis

  Boss, Vision, Directors

  "Juliette Lewis Talks THE FIRM and Future Projects". Interview wth Christina Radish, collider.com. January 11, 2012.

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• When I started doing improvise music in Europe, in the beginning I thought the way that Europeans were interpreting the reconstruction of deconstruction of this thing that we call jazz - of course it's different than what Americans do, because Europeans have a different history, a different sensibility and so forth - the nature of the creative process itself it's the same; but what comes from that creative process is different, because you have a different history, you have a different society, different language.

  Hamid Drake

  Europe, Creative, Way

  Source: the-attic.net

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• I studied the Bible seriously until I was young teenager. It was always part of our home education: talking about the Bible, arguing about the Bible, interpreting it. So I don't connect prayer or scriptures with any particular religion so it's not a contradiction in my life.

  Patti Smith

  Prayer, Teenager, Home

  Source: thefilmexperience.net

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• Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise for interpreting laws is almost always to corrupt them.

  Voltaire

  Law, Uniforms, Clear

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• The world can only appear monochromatic to those who persist in interpreting what they experience through the lens of a single cultural paradigm, their own. For those with the eyes to see and the heart to feel, it remains a rich and complex topography of the spirit.

  Wade Davis

  Heart, Eye, Lenses

  Wade Davis, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (2009). “The wayfinders: why ancient wisdom matters in the modern world”, House of Anansi Pr

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• Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.

  Larry Wall

  Language, Computer, Ambiguous

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I've always tried to insert consciousness and spirituality in my records, interpreting the writings of all cultures and religions and how they apply to life in modern times.

  Rakim

  Writing, Culture, Records

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors.

  Anton Seidl

  Responsibility, Spirit, Composer

  Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.100, Parrot Press

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• Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it moves toward the imagination: it becomes a mental construct, a model of a possible way of interpreting experience. The further it goes in this direction, the more it tends to speak the language of mathematics, which is really one of the languages of the imagination, along with literature and music. Art, on the other hand, begins with the world we construct, not with the world we see. It starts with the imagination, and then works toward ordinary experience.

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Moving, Science

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