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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Christianity, Christian Life

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia

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• Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Honor, Doe, Gladness

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• For as long as men and women have talked about war, they have talked about it in terms of right and wrong. And for almost as long, some among them have derided such talk, called it a charade, insisted that war lies beyond (or beneath) moral judgment. War is a world apart, where life itself is at stake, where human nature is reduced to its elemental forms, where self-interest and necessity prevail. Here men and women do what they must to save themselves and their communities, and morality and law have no place. Inter arma silent leges: in time of war the law is silent.

  Michael Walzer

  War, Lying, Men

  Michael Walzer (2015). “Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations”, p.26, Basic Books

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You know, parenting is so personal. And we're all afraid that we didn't quite get it right. And it feels like the stakes are so high. By we - what if we made a mistake?

  Amy Chua

  Mistake, What If, Made

  "TalkAsia" with Sara Sidner, www.cnn.com. February 3, 2012.

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• For the undocumented immigrants, the big priority is just to get out from the shadows, be able to get a driver's license, buy an airplane ticket and stop worrying about sudden deportation. But for the country as a whole, it's crucial that everybody have a citizen's stake in the nation's welfare.

  Gail Collins

  Country, Airplane, Worry

  "Is This a Government Which I See Before Me?". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 5, 2013.

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• Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.

  Ted Dekker

  Mirrors, Dangerous World, Issues

  Interview with Dick Donahue, www.publishersweekly.com. April 20, 2009.

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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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• Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Book, Writing, People

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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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