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• If climate change issues are not adequately addressed—if we keep running those nice energy subsidies, if the price on carbon is not adequately set, if policymakers don’t have it on their radar screens—then financial stability in the medium and long-term is clearly at stake.

  Christine Lagarde

  Running, Nice, Issues

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• Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall where they may.

  Anne Lamott

  Fall, Character, May

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.45, Anchor

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• When you're dealing with the world of dreams, the psyche, and potential of a human mind, there has to be emotional stakes. You have to deal with issues of memory and desire.

  Christopher Nolan

  Dream, Memories, Emotional

  Source: deadline.com

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• I often feel I am being burned at the stake just because I have always refused to give up that wonderful strange power I have inside me that becomes manifested when I am in harmonious communication with some other inspired being.

  Leonora Carrington

  Giving Up, Communication, Strange

  Leonora Carrington, Mexican Museum (1991). “Leonora Carrington--the Mexican Years, 1943-1985”, Mexican Museum/San Francisco

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• I think today the players are too nice to one another, but that might change with the unbalanced schedule, with teams playing each other more and more. When you face each other that much, with that much at stake, something's bound to happen.

  Dennis Eckersley

  Sports, Nice, Team

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• A national primary election would electrify the people and give them a larger stake in the outcome.

  Leopoldo Lopez

  People, Giving, Outcomes

  "Venezuela’s Elections: A Building Block to Something Bigger" by Leopoldo Lopez, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2010.

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• With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Party, Majority, Congress

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• Sometimes time actually works against you if you refuse to face the relevant issues and explain to the public what is at stake.

  George Soros

  Issues, Faces, Sometimes

  "'You Need This Dirty Word, Euro Bonds'". Interview with Gregor Peter Schmitz and Thomas Schulz, www.spiegel.de. August 15, 2011.

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• That happens a lot when people become parents, too. There's just so much at stake suddenly, and you're also witness to the total miracle of birth, and stuff like that. So I started reading tons of religious texts and checking everything out. One of the things I wanted to make sure of on the record is that it still has a "searching" vibe rather than an authoritative vibe.

  Mason Jennings

  Religious, Reading, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• I've said that movies are the highest stakes make-believe game in the world, and this is truly the most highest stakes.

  Channing Tatum

  Believe, Games, World

  Source: collider.com

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• When you think about the current present value of the fossil fuel reserves that are on the books, the current fossil fuel companies, the last time that that much wealth was at stake was when the South fought the Civil War.

  Chris Hayes

  War, Book, Thinking

  "Chris Hayes Compares Climate Change To The Struggle To End Slavery". Now with Alex Wagner, www.newsbusters.org. October 19, 2012.

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• Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create an ironic sort of depression and delusion. The better you're doing, the higher the stakes, and higher expectations for you to win. Maybe that's why people say it's so hard. But that doesn't make it hard. That just makes it distracting.

  David Ulevitch

  Running, Successful, Winning

  "Honestly, It's Not All That Hard To Start A Company" by David Ulevitch, www.businessinsider.com. November 20, 2012.

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• In these uncertain times, I know 100 percent that I can stake my life on the unshakeable, unchanging promises of God!

  Sheila Walsh

  Promise, Uncertain Times, Unchanging

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• I don't encourage any act of murder nor do I glorify in anybody's death, but I do think that when the white public uses its press to magnify the fact that there are the lives of white hostages at stake, they don't say "hostages," every paper says "white hostages." They give me the impression that they attach more importance to a white hostage and a white death, than they do the death of a human being, despite the color of his skin.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, White, Color

  Malcolm X's speech at the Oxford Union debate (December 3, 1964) as quoted in Saladin Ambar "Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era" (p. 174), 2013.

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• Better to be always in a minority of one with God - branded as madman, incendiary, fanatic, heretic, infidel - frowned upon by "the powers that be," and mobbed by the populace - or consigned ignominiously to the gallows, like him whose "soul is marching on," though his "body lies mouldering in the grave," or burnt to ashes at the stake like Wickliffe, or nailed to the cross like him who "gave himself for the world," - in defence of the RIGHT, than like Herod, having the shouts of a multitude crying, "It is the voice of a god, and not of a man!"

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Lying, Men, Voice

  "Valedictory". The last issue of "The Liberator" newspaper, fair-use.org. January 01, 1866.

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• Faced with the election of a Catholic, our culture is at stake.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Catholic, Culture, Election

  "The Religious Issue: Hot and Getting Hotter". Newsweek, September 19, 1960.

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• At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as complacently as in the Middle Ages.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Men, Age, Century

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• If you have to be burned at the stake, be a good fellow and collect your own fire-wood.

  George Ade

  Fire, Woods, Burned

  George Ade (1920). “Hand-made Fables”

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• Men who profess a state of neutrality in times of public danger, desert the common interest of their fellow subjects; and act with independence to that constitution into which they are incorporated. The safety of the whole requires our joint endeavours. When this is at stake, the indifferent are not properly a part of the community; or rather are like dead limbs, which are an encumbrance to the body, instead of being of use to it.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Safety, Community

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison”, p.194

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