Stakes Quotes - Page 27

• It is easier to drive a stake through the heart of a blood-sucking vampire than to kill off a money-sucking and useless government program.

  Cal Thomas

  Heart, Government, Blood

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• Gary Greenberg is a thoughtful comedian and a cranky philosopher and a humble pest of a reporter, equal parts Woody Allen, Kierkegaard, and Columbo. The Book of Woe is a profound, and profoundly entertaining, riff on malady, power, and truth. This book is for those of us (i.e. all of us) who've ever wondered what it means, and what's at stake, when we try to distinguish the suffering of the ill from the suffering of the human.

  Gideon Lewis-Kraus

  Book, Mean, Humble

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• Over time, you realize that even the things that are most high stakes kind of resolve themselves.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Kind, Realizing, Resolve

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In a weird way, it's not different from any other kind of joke-telling. You make those calculations about jokes about celebrities: is this a fair hit or not? The stakes were higher because the whole world was crumbling around us, but in terms of joke-telling, it's all about feel.

  Michael Schur

  Different, Crumbling, World

  "An Interview with Michael Schur". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Thirteen, believermag.com. October 1, 2015.

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• The billionaire class fully understands what is at stake. That's why a handful of them are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into the current elections. Their goal is not to strengthen the middle class, but continue the trend in which the rich are getting richer at the expense of everyone else.

  Bernie Sanders

  Class, Goal, Dollars

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• Here in Europe, I think that there are a lot of young people who forget the issues that were at stake during the Cold War.

  Barack Obama

  War, Thinking, Europe

  Source: time.com

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• Each of us is under a divinely spoken obligation to reach out with pardon and mercy and to forgive one another. There is a great need for this Christlike attribute in our families, in our marriages, in our wards and stakes, in our communities, and in our nations.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Community, Forgiving, Needs

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• There is no problem in the family, ward, or stake that cannot be solved if we look for solutions in the Lord's way by counseling - really counseling - with one another.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Looks, Way, Problem

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• Social Security Works! puts expanding Social Security front and center on the national agenda, where it belongs. Everyone who has a stake in the debate should read this important book.

  Bernie Sanders

  Book, Important, Agendas

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• I went at each race like there was a gold medal at stake. It wasn't like I ran one hard, then slacked off the next. Every time was my best effort. I didn't know how to go at it any other way.

  Dick Beardsley

  Race, Best Effort, Gold

  Dick Beardsley, Maureen Anderson (2004). “Staying the Course: A Runner's Toughest Race”, p.60, U of Minnesota Press

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• Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Competition, Academia, Vicious

  Carl Sagan, Jerald F. TerHorst, Allan J. Mayer, Sharon S. McKern, Laurence J. Peter (1980). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”

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• The military has a huge role in the economy [of Pakistan] with big stakes and, as you say, it has constantly intervened to make sure that it keeps its hold on policy making. Well, I hope, and there seem to be some signs, that the military is taking a backseat, not really in the economy, but in some of the policy issues. If that can continue, which perhaps it will, this will be a positive development.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Policy Making, Issues

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• There has never been more at stake for women's health and rights.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Women's Health

  "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Discuss Student Debt, Immigration, and More". Interview with Judith Ohikuare, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 11, 2016.

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• You know, we didn't want to kill anyone, but we knew that "Star Wars" is a generational tale. It always is. And for it to have some guts and some resonance and true stakes, I don't think that everyone could have come through the story unscathed.

  J. J. Abrams

  Stars, War, Thinking

  "'Star Wars' Just Keeps Breaking Records". "All Things Considered" with Kelly Mcevers, www.npr.org. January 8, 2016.

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• When we are fighting for huge stakes - we're fighting for the future - future of the planet in terms of climate change. We're fighting for the future of American democracy.

  Bernie Sanders

  Fighting, Democracy, Climate

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But giving up is not an option. There is too much at stake.

  Laurie Garrett

  Giving Up, Despair, Democracy

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• Is there an idea more radical in the history of the human race than turning your children over to total strangers whom you know nothing about, and having those strangers work on your child's mind, out of your sight, for a period of twelve years? Could there be a more radical idea than that? Back in Colonial days in America, if you proposed that kind of idea, they'd burn you at the stake, you mad person! It's a mad idea!

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Years, Ideas

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• What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull of Pope Gelasius? Where are the forty wagon-loads of Hebrew manuscripts burned in France, by order of another pope, because suspected of heresy? Remember the 'index expurgatorius', the inquisition, the stake, the axe, the halter and the guillotine.

  John Adams

  Christian, Book, Order

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.479

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• The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.

  T. S. Eliot

  Christian, Prayer, Believe

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• Our imagination is larger than the world around us; we go beyond our limits. This used to be called 'witchcraft,' but fortunately things have changed, otherwise we would both already have been burned at the stake. When they stopped burning women, science found an explanation for our behavior, normally referred to as 'female hysteria.' We don't get burned anymore, but it does cause problems, especially in the workplace. But don't worry, eventually they'll call it 'wisdom.'

  Paulo Coelho

  Hysteria, Imagination, Worry

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• What is always at stake in any decision we make is what that choice turns us into.

  Terryl L. Givens

  Decisions We Make, Choices, Turns

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• All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.

  June Jordan

  History, African American, Soul

  June Jordan (1981). “Civil Wars”, Beacon Pr

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• Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few pieces. The elements couldn't be more simple, nor the stakes higher. Physically it is extraordinarily arduous, and morally it is killing...You get your happiness where you can. You reach a point where you're at the bottom of hell, yet you have your arms crossed and a smile on your face, and you feel you're the luckiest person on earth. Why? Because at your feet you have a tiny dead fish

  Yann Martel

  Life, Simple, Games

  Yann Martel (2002). “Life Of Pi”, p.292, Canongate Books

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• The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes.

  David Simon

  Emotional, People, Stories

  "'Wire' Creator David Simon Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. April 15, 2011.

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• I have always believed and still believe that artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to the conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization are at stake.

  Pablo Picasso

  Spiritual, Art, Believe

  Pablo Picasso, Mariel Jardines, Herschel Browning Chipp, Alan Wofsy (1997). “Picasso's paintings, watercolors, drawings, and sculpture: a comprehensive illustrated catalogue, 1885-1973. Spanish Civil War, 1937-1939”

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