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• The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.

  Albert Einstein

  Failure, Men, Tasks

  "Only Then Shall We Find Courage", New York Times Magazine, June 23, 1946.

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• Mating Strategy is influenced by the cardinal fact that women have more at stake in sexual activity than men, because of the limited age span in which they can reproduce and the heavy investment required of them with each child conceived. In courtship women consistently emphasize commitment of resources and material security.

  E. O. Wilson

  Children, Commitment, Age

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• The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression, but also for enthusiastic justifications for slavery, persecution, abandonment of small children, torture, and genocide... Moreover, religion enshrined hierarchy, authority, and inequality... It was the age of equality that brought about the disappearance of such religious appurtenances as the auto-da-fe and burning at the stake.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Religious, Children, Rights

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• Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our society suffers with the collapse of the relationship of the couple who brings a child into the world.

  William J Doherty

  Marriage, Children, Couple

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• Oil depletion and climate change will create an entirely new context in which political struggles will be played out. Within that context, it is not just freedom, democracy, and equality that are at stake, but the survival of billions of humans and of whole ecosystems.

  Richard Heinberg

  Struggle, Oil, Ecosystems

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• In search of some rest, in search of a break From a life of tests where something's always at stake Where something's always so far What about my broken car? What about my life so far? What about my dream?

  Barry Privett

  Life, Dream, Broken

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• If you're in this business, like any high-stakes business, the highs and lows can make you a manic-depressive person, if you weren't that way to start with. 'Cause it's just so crazy on your psyche. A lot of it has to do with people thinking they're greater than someone else.

  Joan Cusack

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. May 26, 2008.

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• I don't worry so much about the audience. I want them very much to be involved and enjoy the movie, but I try to just inhabit the character in a full way, where I can create a personal stake.

  Willem Dafoe

  Character, Worry, Trying

  Interview with Steven Hyden, film.avclub.com. September 25, 2007.

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• Before God, I believe the hour has come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it. And I leave off as I began, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration. It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment. Independence now, and Independence for ever!

  John Adams

  Believe, Heart, Blessing

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• Women do not avoid fighting because they are dainty or scared, but because they have a greater stake than men in staying alive to rear their offspring. Women compete with each other just as tenaciously as men, but with a stealth and subtlety that reduces their chances of being killed or injured.

  Anne Campbell

  Fighting, Men, Alive

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• You have to constantly recreate yourself in show business, which is a very fast thing, especially now with the tremendous speed of social media. There are so many personalities, so many different kinds of comedy that you can access, so it’s definitely important to stake your claim and say who you are.

  Margaret Cho

  Media, Personality, Important

  "'I Want to Talk About How We Can Use Our Anger to Heal': Badass Comic Margaret Cho Dishes". Interview with Paula Young Lee, www.alternet.org. September 30, 2015.

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• There is more at stake here than just our lives.  It is the lives around us.

  Jonathan Kent

  Our Lives

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• For me, the involvement of states in our national effort is not just because of their constitutional and legal responsibilities. It is also stems from a basic management principle. The chances of success are higher when we create a sense of participation for everyone; when we give everyone a stake in success.

  Narendra Modi

  Responsibility, Giving, Effort

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• If it's about the lives of my soldiers at stake, I'd go through hell with a gasoline can.

  Allen West

  Soldier, Gasoline, Hell

  "U.S. officer fined for harsh interrogation tactics". www.cnn.com. December 13, 2003.

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• I remember an incident overseas about five years ago where a player punched a referee and knocked him cold. I don't think anything like that will ever happen in the NBA. Emotions run rampant. The games are so intense, and the stakes are so high. (But) At the end of the day, players and coaches really respect officials and really appreciate that they try to do a good job.

  Jalen Rose

  Running, Jobs, Player

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• It's kind of dumb; everybody should be able to listen to the kind of music they want and just because you're a fan of a band for a longer period of time doesn't mean you have a greater stake of claim to the band or the music.

  Ray Toro

  Mean, Dumb, Want

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• I believe that our world needs an instrument of global action as never before in history. I believe that the United Nations is the instrument for securing peace and for giving people everywhere, in poorer countries as in richer, a real stake in that peace by promoting development and encouraging cooperation. But the United Nations is only an instrument, an actor in need of props and cues from its directors, And so I will paraphrase Winston Churchill: Give us the tools-the trust, the authority and the means-and we will do the job.

  Kofi Annan

  Trust, Country, Jobs

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• Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

  Wendell Phillips

  Progress, World, Steps

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.14

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• Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake... No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of misery.

  Maurice Strong

  Fate, Islands, Sea

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• When the Champions League is at stake, ... you do everything you can, whether it's called gamesmanship or cheating, to put the opposition off.

  Jamie Carragher

  Cheating, Champions League, Opposition

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• If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling?

  Richard Powers

  Years, Three, Why Not

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• To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound  like a burden, but in practice few things in life afford quite as much satisfaction.

  Michael Pollan

  Practice, Things In Life, Sound

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I'm getting older, so how people face grave circumstances is of interest to me. And you meet a lot of people who are very courageous, and it doesn't reek of something funny to write about, but I always think that the higher the stakes, the bigger the laughs can be, and the more emotional the scenes can be.

  Judd Apatow

  Writing, Emotional, Thinking

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 30, 2009.

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• [Directing first film:] I was terrified, it was really very scary because there is a lot of responsibility. I think I was terrified because I wanted it to work so much. A lot of actors direct movies but I thought the stakes were kind of higher for me because I really, really cared. [...] I just worked as hard as I possibly could on every single thing, every single day. I said that if this failed it would not be because I didn't work as hard as I possibly could...every day.

  Ben Affleck

  Responsibility, Thinking, Scary

  "Gone Baby Gone - Ben Affleck interview" by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• There is a risk of death associated with donating a piece of liver. It's about one in 500 for the risk of death. The risk of death of donating a kidney is about one in 3000, so this is a riskier operation than donating a kidney. The stakes are usually higher for the recipient of the transplant because unlike kidney failure, where you have a dialysis machine, in liver failure we don't have that kind of machine that allows a patient to survive until they can get a cadaver organ.

  John Roberts

  Risk, Kidneys, Cadavers

  Source: www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org

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