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We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time. ↗

— William J. Brennan, Jr.

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I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway. ↗

— Wayne Coyne

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The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality. ↗

— Tom Petty

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I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves. ↗

— Bijou Phillips

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Saint Augustine … insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author may have intended, any passage that seemed to preach hatred and was not conducive to love must be interpreted allegorically and made to speak of charity. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and trying to make sense of them. Dim, shaky, weak, static-y little signals that only hint at the complexity of a universe we cannot begin to understand. ↗

— Bones The Doctor in the Photo

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations. ↗

— Kenneth Burke

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The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of Providence. ↗

— Jeremiah Day

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