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• I looked him in the eye. “I will always love you.” Then I plunged the stake into his chest.

  Richelle Mead

  Love You, Eye, Vampire Academy

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Vampire Academy: Blood Promise”, p.293, Penguin UK

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• It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody else, if these talents were not regarded as commodities with a value in the success-stakes.

  Doris Lessing

  Children, Belief, Talent

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• My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

  Charles Dickens

  True Love, Heart, Men

  Charles Dickens “Oliver Twist”, Lulu.com

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• Usually my form of turning someone down was shoving a stake through his heart while smirking, Gotcha!

  Jeaniene Frost

  Heart, Form

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• Maybe I could do it." Darius shot him a dry look. "You want to try to get back into your house after the fact? Wellsie will stake you through the heart and leave you for the sun, my friend. Tohrment winced. "Good point" "And then she'll come looking for me." Both males shuttered.

  J.R. Ward

  Heart, House, Brotherhood

  J.R. Ward (2005). “Dark Lover: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.22, Penguin

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• Write every day. Don't ever stop. If you are unpublished, enjoy the act of writing—and if you are published, keep enjoying the act of writing. Don't become self-satisfied, don't stop moving ahead, growing, making it new. The stakes are high. Why else would we write?

  Rick Bass

  Moving, Writing, Self

  "Danger" by Rick Bass, www.narrativemagazine.com. 2011.

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• The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science would be impossible if our intelligence were not adapted to the intelligibility of the world. The match between our intelligence and the intelligibility of the world is no accident. Nor can it properly be attributed to natural selection, which places a premium on survival and reproduction and has no stake in truth or conscious thought. Indeed, meat-puppet robots are just fine as the output of a Darwinian evolutionary process.

  William A. Dembski

  Serendipity, Survival, Meat

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• You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled.

  Pittacus Lore

  Repeats, Doomed, Knows

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• We boarded the plane after boxing our stakes and knives and taking them to a FedEx carrier, airport security being so strict nowadays. In the section marked 'contents', Bones filled out 'Tofu'. God, but he had a sick sense of humor sometimes.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Airports, Filled Out, Knives

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “Halfway to the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.184, Hachette UK

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• Now go and stake some vamps. Especially the sparkly emo ones.

  Kevin Hearne

  Emo, Vamp

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.711, Del Rey

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

  John Boehner

  Israel, Existence

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• every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Merry Christmas, History

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.5

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• Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.

  Michael Shermer

  Matter, Sticks, Skepticism

  "What Is Skepticism, Anyway?" by Michael Shermer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2013.

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• Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Struggle, Fall, Love Is

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

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• All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

  John Shelby Spong

  Religious, War, Religion

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• God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.

  Charles Stanley

  Simple, Destiny, Joy

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• The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

  Sting

  Live Life, Acceptance, Giving

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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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• I did not design this game; I did not name the stakes. I just happen to like apples; and I am not afraid of snakes.

  Ani DiFranco

  Games, Snakes, Names

  Song: Adam And Eve, Album: Dilate

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• I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains - I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs. I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar cane; I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their lairs. I will go out until the day, until the morning break - Out to the wind's untainted kiss, the water's clean caress; I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake. I will revisit my lost love and playmates masterless!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Morning, Lost Love, Kissing

  Rudyard Kipling (1993). “The Jungle Book”, p.140, Wordsworth Editions

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