Stakes Quotes - Page 30

• Obviously, there's the temptation to sit back and smile, .. But there's so much at stake, we have to do our due diligence.

  Ralph Neas

  Temptation, Due Diligence, Dues

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• We'll be competitive with organized labor, we're also competitive with regular, unorganized labor, working people who see their stakes and their future in the plans we're putting forward to move Massachusetts forward.

  Deval Patrick

  Moving, People, Competition

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• If the only obstacle to the renewal and modernization of France is a choice of personnel, I am completely convinced that the president will make the right choice. What is at stake is not Alain Juppe but France.

  Alain Juppe

  Choices, President, France

  "Chirac, French conservatives stung by election result". www.cnn.com. May 26, 1997.

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• The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election [2016]. As an example, just one single trade deal they'd like to pass involves trillions of dollars, controlled by many countries, corporations and lobbyists.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Lobbyists, Example

  Source: time.com

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• We all have a stake in the battle against Ebola.

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  Ebola, Battle

  Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's letter to the world on Ebola written and recorded especially for the BBC World Service's Newshour programme, soundcloud.com. October 19, 2014.

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• Go ahead and do things, the bigger the better, if your fundamentals are sound. Avoid procrastination. Do not quibble for an hour over things that might be decided in minutes. However, if the issue at stake is large, stay as long as the next man, but go ahead and do things.

  John J. Raskob

  Procrastination, Men, Issues

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• To keep a man a slave you do much the same as the cruel circus masters did to the elephant around the turn of last century. Clamp heavy chains around their legs and stake them to the ground. Then beat and terrorize them. After a while you no longer even have to stake the chain; the elephant gives up and just the mere rattle of the chain convinces the elephant there is no hope, so they give up and do whatever it is the circus requires.

  Glenn Beck

  Giving Up, Men, Elephants

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• Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.

  Neil Gaiman

  Virginia, People, Toasters

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third?such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There's also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don't get much practice making them. You've probably gotten good at buying groceries, since you do it so often, but buying your first house is another thing entirely.

  Steven Levitt

  Mother, Home, Mean

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• Pay attention, my young friends: to go against the current; this is good for the heart, but we need courage to swim against the tide. ... We Christians were not chosen by the Lord for little things; push onwards toward the highest principles.  Stake your lives on noble ideals, my dear young people!

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Heart, Young Friends

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.41, SPCK

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• Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.

  Al Gore

  Grandchildren, Civilization, Way

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• Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death are at stake.

  George Friedman

  War, Life And Death, Matter

  George Friedman (2011). “The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going”, p.225, Anchor

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• The Word says, ‘Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world’ (1 John 2:15). Jesus warned, ‘Beware of covetousness: for a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things which he possesses’ (Luke 12:15). Things—our possessions—can tie us down to this world. While heaven and hell prepare for war, we go shopping. Eternal values are at stake! The end of all we know is near—and we are busy playing with our toys!

  David Wilkerson

  Jesus, War, Men

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• When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two and exits. Just five minutes on a stage, not even Broadway. But every time you say your little prayer at night, you place more demands.

  Charles Kimbrough

  Prayer, Character, Night

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• The emphasis is on community, on participating in more and more programs and events, on meeting more and more people. It’s a constant tension for many introverts that they’re not living that out. And in a religious world, there’s more at stake when you feel that tension. It doesn’t feel like ‘I’m not doing as well as I’d like.’ It feels like ‘God isn’t pleased with me.’ 

  Susan Cain

  Religious, People, Community

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.66, Broadway Books

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• I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.

  Seth Gordon

  Character, Stories, Comedy

  "Q&A with “Horrible Bosses” director Seth Gordon". Interview with Mandy Stadtmiller, nypost.com. July 3, 2011.

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• The battle of the euro is being fought right now in Spain and Italy...The future of the euro is at stake in the next few weeks...

  Luis de Guindos

  Next Week, Battle, Spain

  "Eurozone crisis live: Ireland votes on EU fiscal treaty". www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives.

  Ernst Hanfstaengl

  Military, Democracies Have, People

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• The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

  Frank Herbert

  Battle, Conflict, Wealth

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• Environmentalism is not an upper-income issue, it's not a white issue, it's not a black issue, it's not a South or a North or an East or a West issue. It's an issue that all of us have a stake in. And if I can do anything to make sure that not just my daughter but every child in America has green pastures to run in and clean air to breathe and clean water to swim in, then that is something I'm going to work my hardest to make happen.

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Running, Children

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• Both rich and poor nations have a common stake in policies that put the globe on a sustainable development path. The conflict is less between poor and rich countries than between the broad interests of people and the narrow interests of extractive industries. We need to find our way towards some kind of global regime that reduces emissions of the greenhouse gases, but well-off nations need to transfer the technology to make this possible, rather than viewing this shift as one more opportunity for private industry to profit.

  Robert Kuttner

  Country, Technology, Opportunity

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• Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave; true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life.

  Andre Malraux

  Men, West, Forget

  "The Voices of Silence". Book by Andre Malraux, Doubleday, Part IV, Chapter I, 1953.

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• "Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange for a moral blank check one expects for oneself. There is no escape from the fact that men have to make choices; so long as men have to make choices, there is no escape from moral values; so long as moral values are at stake, no moral neutrality is possible. To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accesory to the torture and murder of his victims. The moral principle to adopt... is: "Judge, and be prepared to be judged."

  Ayn Rand

  Fear, Responsibility, Men

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• Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Positive, Perseverance, Determination

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• I have just realized that the stakes are myself I have no other ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life

  Diane di Prima

  Ransom, Break, Just Realized

  Diane Di Prima (2007). “Revolutionary Letters”, p.7, Last Gasp

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