"The squalid cash interpretation put on the word success is our national disease."
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"I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation."
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"Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees."
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"Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape."
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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
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"Perception is a selective act of attention and interpretation."
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"No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream."
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"The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate."
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"Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you."
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"My point is that meaning is always personal, changeable and subjective. There is no 'correct' interpretation of a photograph."
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"A novel is a machine for generating interpretations."
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"My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function."
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"There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it."
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"We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning."
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"Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation."
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"The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation."
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"Interpretations of interpretations interpreted."
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"Hugh Lynn Cayce, Edgar Cayce's son, is quoted as saying, The best interpretation of a dream is one you apply."
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"Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed."
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"There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena."
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