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• Villains used to always die in the end. Even the monsters. Frankenstein, Dracula - you'd kill them with a stake. Now the nightmare guy comes back.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Guy, Monsters, Nightmare

  Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.

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• The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'

  Tom Robbins

  Writing, Heart, Creating

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• Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies, upped the stakes.

  David Foster Wallace

  Nuclear, Weapons, Tvs

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• No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Atheist, Law, Atheism

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• A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

  H. G. Wells

  Time, Peace, War

  H. G. Wells (2012). “The Salvaging of Civilization: The Probable Future of Mankind”, p.32, The Floating Press

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• Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how can you not have respect for a guy who's been down on the floor and just keeps coming back? Nothing will keep Donald Trump down until they drive a wooden stake in his heart and a silver bullet in his brain.

  Felix Dennis

  Mother, Heart, Guy

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• The mistake isn't releasing something bad. The mistake is to launch it and get PR people involved. You don't want people to start amping up expectations for an early version of your product. The best entrepreneurship happens in low-stakes environments where no one is paying attention, like Mark Zuckerberg's dorm room at Harvard.

  Eric Ries

  Mistake, Zuckerberg, People

  "Ideas Are Overrated: Startup Guru Eric Ries’ Radical New Theory". Interview with Carlye Adler, www.wired.com. April 30. 2011.

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• Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

  Gertrude Stein

  Children, Thinking, Vote

  Gertrude Stein, Robert Bartlett Haas (1971). “A primer for the gradual understanding of Gertrude Stein”

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• In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.

  Aristotle

  May, Revolution, Rebellious

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• politics can be an ugly game, and in a national election the stakes get higher while the tactics get lower.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Games, Getting High, Tactics

  Geraldine Ferraro, Linda Bird Francke (1985). “Ferraro: My Story”, p.33, Northwestern University Press

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• The safety of the country is at stake... We must let ourselves be killed on the spot rather than retreat... No faltering can be tolerated today.

  Joseph Joffre

  Country, War, Safety

  General Joseph Joffre's proclamation, September 6, 1914.

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• Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.

  John F. Kennedy

  Fall, Survival, Prejudice

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• What you have in Iraq is not just a society coming apart like Yugoslavia or Congo. What is at stake is not just Iraq's stability but the balance of power in the region.

  Vali Nasr

  Yugoslavia, Iraq, Balance

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• The only system which is truly secure is one which is switched off and unplugged, locked in a titanium lined safe, buried in a concrete bunker, and is surrounded by nerve gas and very highly paid armed guards. Even then, I wouldn't stake my life on it.

  Gene Spafford

  Nerves, Safe, Bunkers

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• As I see it, we are all connected and share a stake in our collective future. We are all part of a greater picture. I greatly encourage businesswomen everywhere in the world to take personal responsibility, stay connected to their own intuition and unique potential, work hard, deal with reality, but don't give up.

  Shari Arison

  Giving Up, Hard Work, Don't Give Up

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• The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake.

  Arthur C. Brooks

  America, Soul, Battle

  Arthur C. Brooks (2010). “The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future”, p.186, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Being dismantled before our eyes are not just individual programs that politicians cite as too expensive but the whole idea that society has a stake in the well-being of children down the block and the security of families on the other side of town. Whether or not kids eat well, are nurtured and have a roof over their heads is not just a consequence of how their parents behave. It is also a responsibility of society--but now apparently a diminishing one.

  Richard Stolley

  Children, Block, Kids

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• ... there is a place in the United States for the Negro. They are real American citizens, and at home. They have fought and bled and died, like men, to make this country what it is. And if they have got to suffer and die, and be lynched, and tortured, and burned at the stake, I say they are at home.

  Amanda Smith

  Country, Real, Home

  Amanda Smith (1893). “An Autobiography: The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the Colored Evangelist; Containing an Account of Her Life Work of Faith, and Her Travels in America, England, Ireland, Scotland, India, and Africa, as an Independent Missionary”

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• Especially on Broadway, composers and lyricists fretted over their creations, obsessed over every rhyme, every critical chord or interval. The stakes were so high. On Broadway, people were watching and judging, especially newspaper critics who knew a thousand ways to slice and dice a songwriter for the entertainment of hundreds of thousands of faithful readers. There was no anonymity for the Broadway songwriter. Even the best could find themselves stripped naked the morning after by the tastemakers and their readers.

  Michael Kosser

  Morning, Writing, People

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• It is easy enough to say, Be true to your values. But what if your values are irrational? Or what if the virtues you have committed yourself to are so much against human nature that they cannot be practiced consistently? Be careful of what you accept as your code of morality. Think carefully about whether its tenets serve your life and well being. Exercise critical judgment. Realize how much is at stake-your life, your happiness, your self-esteem.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Exercise, Thinking

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• The stakes ... are too high for government to be a spectator sport.

  Barbara Jordan

  Sports, Government, Spectators

  Barbara Jordan, Shelby Hearon (1979). “Barbara Jordan, a self-portrait”, Doubleday Books

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• In New York the stakes are so high. In urban centers the stakes are so high. You marry the wrong person, you go to the wrong college, you take the wrong job. Any of these things could really get you in trouble down the road. Or in your mind anyway. You're afraid to make any move, it's paralyzing.

  Meghan Daum

  Jobs, New York, Moving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• At times like that it's difficult to remember what's at stake, that history is in the making. As a player you feel so cut off sometimes, it can be tough... Which is why it is an enormous advantage to play at home.

  Michel Patini

  Home, Cutting, Player

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• The Hebrew language... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain of time.... It binds us to those who built pyramids, to those who shed their blood on the ramparts of Jerusalem, and to those who, at the burning stakes, cried Shema Yisrael!

  I. L. Peretz

  Pyramids, Blood, Together

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• Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake.

  Lord Randolph Churchill

  Senior, Army, Troops

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