"Plain as a pike-staff."

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Source : Alain-Rene Lesage (2011). “The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane”, p.910, The Floating Press

Alain-Rene Lesage

“The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.”
“The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.”

Source : "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion". Book by Jonathan Haidt, 2012.
“What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess.”
“If you spend your life living in fear or doubt, you will never actually live life, and will only be coexisting with the rest of the world.”
“For me, as a documentary filmmaker, I'm interested in telling stories of real people whose experiences tell us something about ourselves or our history, or who we are and our potential.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Some men will spin out a long prayer telling God who and what he is, or they pray out a whole system of divinity. Some people preach, others exhort the people, till everybody wishes they would stop, and God wishes so, too, most undoubtedly.”
“Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither.”
“If you do your "homework" well you can be sure you'll feel more relaxed. Make sure you have a walk or rest before the game because the most important thing is to be focused during the game itself! If you get tired by preparation you won't have enough energy left for the whole game, and we all know that a single blunder can ruin all the work done beforehand!”

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