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All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth Time Power Interpretation All Things Prevails Given Subject Function Things

If we are honest with ourselves, we have to admit that sometimes our assumptions and preconceived notions are wrong, and therefore, our interpretation of events is incorrect. This causes us to overreact, to take things personally, or to judge people unfairly. Elizabeth Thornton

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. Noam Chomsky

Generation Words Language Free Creation Interpretation Laws Varied Involves Principles Fixed Infinitely Process Which Manner Use Used Even

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. Sigmund Freud

Dreams Knowledge Mind Interpretation Unconscious Road Activities Royal Royal Road

If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God's story is really our story too. Max Lucado

Life God Problems Pain Interpretation Think Too Changes Our Everything Everything Changes Possibility Open Up Privileges Story Then Really Even

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder. Stephen King

Judges should be in the business of declaring what the law is using the traditional tools of interpretation, rather than pronouncing the law as they might wish it to be in light of their own political views. Neil Gorsuch

Business Law Light Political Wish Own Interpretation Tools Rather Judges Traditional Than Political Views Declaring Might Should Views Using

I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.' Barbara Jordan

Me Mistake People Decision Interpretation Alexander Finally Out Somehow Through Court Felt Court Decision Hamilton George Been Years George Washington Left Amendment Just Process Many Included Washington

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena. Friedrich Nietzsche

Interpretation Moral Only Phenomena

But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom. Buddy Rich

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. Friedrich Nietzsche

Interpretation Fact Established Necessity

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

Man Ideology Revolution Interpretation Liberation Some Object Main Transcendental Application

Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us, but in reference to other parts of the Bible. John Piper

Bible Culture World Light Reading Understanding Interpretation Other Involves Parts Around Reference Lots Lots And Lots Just Us

A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work. Octavio Paz

Work Reading Interpretation Hundred Hundred Years Would Would-Be Fact No Work New Read Readers Because Without Impose Years Survives In Fact After Which Them Modes Who Interpretations Two

Corruption is the by-product of discretion when there is scope for interpretation of policies. Piyush Goyal

Corruption Interpretation Policies Scope Discretion By-Product

Everyone sees something different in 'Endgame': a biblical apocalypse, a portrait of painful co-dependency, a confession of guilt and dignity in the face of death, a night of baffling hopelessness, a meaningless babble. Each interpretation reveals an absurd truth - not about the play, but about the person watching it. Simon McBurney

Death Truth Bible Dignity Confession Guilt Face Interpretation Everyone Hopelessness About Something Sees Baffling Absurd Reveals Person Endgame Different Apocalypse Meaningless Painful Each Play Portrait Watching Night Babble

No matter your interpretation of Apple's success with its Watch, it has become a leader - and it wasn't first to market. Adam Lashinsky

Success Matter Leader First Become Interpretation Market Your Apple Watch

In 'Where the Air is Clear', Carlos Fuentes composed a polyphonic portrait of Mexico City amid the growth and modernization brought on by the economic boom of the 1950s. The novel can be read as a jazz interpretation - free and in a Mexican key - of John Dos Passos' 'Manhattan Transfer'. Alvaro Enrigue

Key Free Jazz Interpretation Air Boom City John Composed Brought Economic Clear Read Mexican Mexico Mexico City Where Manhattan Transfer Modernization Novel Growth Portrait

Proust is interested in minutiae because life, as he sees it, is seldom ever about things but about our impression of things, not about facts but about the interpretation of facts, not about one particular feeling but about a confluence of conflicting feelings. Everything is elusive in Proust because nothing is ever certain. Andre Aciman

Life Feeling Feelings Nothing Interpretation Our Elusive Everything Minutiae About Sees Seldom Facts He Particular Because Proust Impression Conflicting Confluence Interested Certain Ever Things

I guess professionally I've left my gender open to artistic interpretation. Andreja Pejic

Gender Interpretation Guess Open Left Artistic Professionally

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