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• Each and every day, Israel's very existence is at stake.

  John Boehner

  Israel, Existence

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• If my kids came to me and said, 'I'm gay,' I'd say, 'Son, I love you.' That's never at stake. Never, never, never at stake.

  Kirk Cameron

  Love You, Kids, Son

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• I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Determination

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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• There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.

  Brad Henry

  Too Much, Surrender, Polarization

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• I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.

  John Mayer

  Writing, Emotional, Needs

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• It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Views, Worry, World

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• The reason why I hate working in theatre is the tedium of memorisation. But once that is done, then you feast on this never-ending meal. If you play it correctly, every night is fraught with very high stakes that are very difficult to find in everyday life.

  Christopher Meloni

  Hate, Night, Play

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• Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

  Alanis Morissette

  Movie, People, Actors

  Interview With Spence D., www.ign.com. June 18, 2004.

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• Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes.

  James Surowiecki

  Running, Real, Self

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• I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  America, Management, Hotel

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

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• I've pretty much given up on the orange. I really have. I just don't even bother. It's just either sour, or woody, or the skin's too thick. It's very nice when you come across the perfect orange, because it's really a beautiful experience. But the stakes are too high.

  Scott Thompson

  Beautiful, Nice, Orange

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• After World War II it was decided that, in order to prevent the Germans and the French from having another war, it would be better to tie them together into one economic pact so they would invest in each other and have mutual stakes. Until now, that has worked to prevent warfare between the two.

  Frans de Waal

  War, Order, Two

  "Frans de Waal on Politics, Fairness, and Human Nature". Interview with Eric Michael Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2011.

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• Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.

  Hanna Rosin

  Males, Different, Routine

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• My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it. It will drown you all and never even notice.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Beer, Sea, Soul

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• A poem, being an instance of language, hence essentially dialogue, may be a letter in a bottle thrown out to the sea with the-surely not always strong-hope that it may somehow wash up somewhere, perhaps on the shoreline of the heart. In this way, too, poems are en route: they are headed towards. Toward what? Toward something open, inhabitable, an approachable you, perhaps, an approachable reality. Such realities are, I think, at stake in a poem.

  Paul Celan

  Strong, Heart, Reality

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• I guess Im attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And its why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.

  Conor McPherson

  Writing, Character, Scare

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• Our dad made everything competitive for me and brother. It always was a world championship, a national championship, Big 10 championship. It was always at stake in everything we did.

  John Harbaugh

  Brother, Dad, World

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, and the stakes too high - to permit the customary passions of political debate.

  John F. Kennedy

  Passion, Thinking, People

  Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, en.wikisource.org. July 15, 1960.

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• Human use of fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere; oceans are polluted and depleted of fish; 80 per cent of Earth's forests are heavily impacted or gone yet their destruction continues. An estimated 50,000 species are driven to extinction each year. We dump millions of tonnes of chemicals, most untested for their biological effects, and many highly toxic, into air, water and soil. We have created an ecological holocaust. Our very health and survival are at stake, yet we act as if we have plenty of time to respond.

  David Suzuki

  Ocean, Air, Years

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• When characters have different goals and are intent on achieving them, conflict results. If the stakes are high and both sides are unyielding, you have the makings of high drama.

  James N. Frey

  Drama, Character, Goal

  James N. Frey (2010). “How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling”, p.31, Macmillan

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• It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army 168 and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.

  Edmund Burke

  Army, Attachment, Government

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• I see Macbeth as a young, open-faced warrior, who is gradually sucked into a whirpool of events because of his ambition. When he meets the weird sisters and hears their prophecy, he's like the man who hopes to win a million - a gamble for high stakes.

  Roman Polanski

  Ambition, Warrior, Winning

  Playboy magazine, February 1972.

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• Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality.

  Al Gore

  Reality, Magician, Deceived

  "Without a Trace". Book review of ‘The Sixth Extinction’ by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.nytimes.com. February 10, 2014.

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• To me it was real war and my life was at stake, and I believe that all those clandestine spy games we played as children helped when the Occupation came.

  Diet Eman

  Children, Real, War

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• Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.

  Hillary Clinton

  Life Is Too Short, Working Together, Might

  Announcing Suspension of Presidential Campaign, delivered 7 June 2008, National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.

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