#interpret

If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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Testimony gives something to be interpreted. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation. ↗

— Bridget Riley

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You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. ↗

— Tony Robbins

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The theory has to be interpreted that extra dimensions beyond the ordinary four dimensions the three spatial dimensions plus time are sufficiently small that they haven't been observed yet. ↗

— Edward Witten

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The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. ↗

— John Gilmore

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The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them. ↗

— Joel Coen

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I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He was the modern Moses who had talked with God apart and could interpret Him to us. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

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