"For a long time, we assume we know who we are, until the moment we fully realize who that is; in that moment, identity is no longer predictable, but rather takes the form of a truth that, like any other, can become a sentence with no more than a change of perspective."

-- Sergio Chejfec

#Perspective Quotes #Long Quotes #Identity Quotes

“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
“Congress is supposed to provide oversight, the voters are supposed to provide oversight. And you [the media] were supposed to provide oversight. That's why you have special liberties and that's why you have special protections.”
“Each step in life has been another step in an area that was a challenge, that is highly satisfying and that gives you a great sense of pride afterwards.”
“I don't believe that employers should have access to an employee's private passwords, including Facebook.”

Source : The Arena Debates: Driving the Conversation by David Mark, www.politico.com. April 07, 2012.
“Rather the pain of discipline than the pain of regret.”
“I guess now music is so saturated and so microwaved. It's, like, 15 minutes in the microwave and boom, you've got something. Nobody's putting passion or any thought behind it anymore.”
“We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage - almost as if history were nothing more than all the narratives of human pain, assembled in sequence. And surely this is, often enough, an adequate description. But history is also the narratives of grace, the recountings of those blessed and inexplicable moments when someone did something for someone else, saved a life, bestowed a gift, gave something beyond what was required by circumstance.”

Source : Thomas Cahill (2010). “Mysteries of the Middle Ages: And the Beginning of the Modern World”, p.3, Anchor
“All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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