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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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• 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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• With control of the universe at stake, a crash program is imperative.We produced the A-bomb, under the huge Manhattan Project, in an amazingly short time. The needs, the urgency today are even greater. The Air Force should end UFO secrecy, give the facts to scientists,the public, to Congress. Once the people realize the truth, they would back, even demand a crash program...for this is one race we dare not lose.

  Donald Keyhoe

  Race, Air, People

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• Pro football is a game; not a war. It's for win or lose, not life or death... but say that in the summer, for winter brings the playoffs, and a season is at stake.

  John Facenda

  Summer, Football, War

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• If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work may be read. But a writer will work anyway, as I do, and as I have, in part to explore this terra incognita, this dangerous ground I seem to need to risk.

  Frederick Busch

  Risk, Matter, Needs

  Frederick Busch (2011). “A Dangerous Profession: A Book About the Writing Life”, p.31, Macmillan

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• Any idiot can be brave, but courage is about knowing what's at stake, and moving forward anyway.

  Meg Ryan

  Moving, Knowing, Brave

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• I think if I had lived back in Salem, I would have been burned at the stake

  Rose McGowan

  Thinking, Burned, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Rose McGowan from Aug 21, 2013

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• The higher the stakes, the happier I am, the better I will be.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Higher

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

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• Kids not only understand [a dark story] but appreciate it … Because in the real world there's fear, and dark things happen no matter how young you are. People lose parents, people lose friends … There's darkness in the world. So I think when kids are talked to in that way, they appreciate it. They're not being given some candy-coated, 'Oh, this is a world where there are no stakes.' I think that actually insults their intelligence.

  America Ferrera

  Real, Kids, Dark

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• Do you think we should drive a stake through his heart just in case?

  Peter Lorre

  Heart, Thinking, Should

  "Biography / Trivia". www.imdb.com.

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• Hurray, Hallelujah, and Happy Prostate! Finally, someone has taken the years and done the work, so the rest of us no longer need suffer from ignorance as to how to have good prostate health. That someone is Roger Mason, and all that one needs to know in order to have a happy prostate has been distilled down into this one book. I would stake the health of my prostate on it, and can tell you as a prostate cancer survivor; it is the ONLY way to go.

  Dirk Benedict

  Cancer, Book, Taken

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• I don’t know about ‘common sense opinion’ by the way. It seems to me that the office of common sense is to keep us from playing cards for high stakes with people we meet on trains, and not to endorse metaphysical opinions.

  Peter van Inwagen

  People, Common Sense, Office

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• I like writing teen characters because they’re vulnerable to the newness of things; and vulnerability makes emotional responses raw, vital and unguarded. Lacking a context of consequences, choices are riskier and stakes higher. Life is lived without a safety net. As an author and reader, I find that a mighty charge to drama.

  Allan Stratton

  Drama, Writing, Character

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• As Americans, we want peace - we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator. I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein.

  George W. Bush

  Leadership, Sacrifice, Hussein

  Address to the Nation on the Threat of Iraq, delivered 7 October 2002, Cincinnati Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio

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• There's a game out there, and the stakes are high. And the guy who runs it figures the averages all day long and all night long. Once in a while he lets you steal a pot. But if you stay in the game long enough, you've got to lose. And once you've lost there's no way back, no way at all.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Running, Night, Average

  "Johnny Got His Gun". Book by Dalton Trumbo, September 3, 1939.

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• Only it’s just the same. In fact, do you know, because of all that pressure, and worry, and fear, it’s worse. There aren’t many men who think clearest when the stakes are highest. So people are even stupider in a war than the rest of the time. Thinking about how they’ll dodge the blame, or grab the glory, or save their skins, rather than about what will actually work There’s no job that forgives stupidity more than soldiering. No job that encourages it more.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Jobs, War, Men

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• To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!

  Andre Breton

  God, Thinking, Atheism

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• A hot stake is better than a cold chop.

  Curly Howard

  Hot, Cold

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• Occasionally, the whole class struggle may be summed up in the struggle for one word against another word. Certain words struggle amongst themselves as enemies. Other words are the site of an ambiguity: the stake in a decisive but undecided battle

  Louis Althusser

  Struggle, Class, Enemy

  Louis Althusser (2001). “Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays”, p.8, NYU Press

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• Lola Montes is, in my unhumble opinion, the greatest film of all time, and I am willing to stake my critical reputation, such as it is, on this one proposition above all others.

  Andrew Sarris

  Opinion, Reputation, Film

  Andrew Sarris (1973). “The primal screen: essays on film and related subjects”, Simon & Schuster

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• What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then make the usual profits privatizing it. There was a principle at stake. They had to ensure their friends and not outsiders got the benefit.

  Michael Moorcock

  Land, Names, Usual

  "New Worlds (No. 4)". Science fiction anthology edited by David S. Garnett with afterword by‎ Michael Moorcock, 1994.

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• But I really think it's a very unfortunate part of our judicial system and I would feel much, much better if more states would really consider whether they think the benefits outweigh the very serious potential injustice, because in these cases the emotions are very, very high on both sides and to have stakes as high as you do in these cases, there is a special potential for error. We cannot ignore the fact that in recent years a disturbing number of inmates on death row have been exonerated.

  John Paul Stevens

  Thinking, Years, Numbers

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• I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win.

  Napoleon Hill

  Winning, Men, Order

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.15, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.

  Antonin Artaud

  Flames, Artistic, Victim

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.13, Grove Press

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• The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

  Henry Steele Commager

  People, Genius, Conformity

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