#interpret

I study history in order to give an interpretation. ↗

— Oliver Stone

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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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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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The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for that very reason he cannot possibly read every work solemly or gravely. For he will read 'in the same spirit that the author writ.'... He will never commit the error of trying to munch whipped cream as if it were venison. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

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My decision to leave 'Ween', however interpreted, was absolutely not made in haste. ↗

— Gene Ween

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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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The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology. ↗

— Jean Genet

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Laws are applied to enemies, but only interpreted as regards friends. ↗

— Giovanni Giolitti

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I loved the Godfather. I thought that was the best interpretation of our life that I've ever seen. Godfather I and Godfather II - the other one stunk. ↗

— Sammy Gravano

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