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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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• 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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• 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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• In an archery contest, when the stakes are earthenware tiles a contestant shoots with skill. When the stakes are belt buckles he becomes hesitant, and if the stakes are pure gold he becomes nervous and confused. There is no difference as to his skil.

  Zhuangzi

  Confused, Skills, Differences

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• To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.

  Oscar Wilde

  Single Mom, Risk, Weakness

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• People tend to think astronauts have the courage of a superhero - or maybe the emotional range of a robot. But in order to stay calm in a high-stress, high-stakes situation, all you really need is knowledge. Sure, you might still feel a little nervous or stressed or hyper-alert. But what you won't feel is terrified.

  Chris Hadfield

  Courage, Stress, Emotional

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

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• Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Grief, Mourning, Members

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• To be outspoken when truth is under attack, when charity is being bruise, or when important issues of life are at stake is a good and courageous thing. To be outspoken when nothing is at stake except the feelings of someone else is a small and contemptible thing.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Issues, Feelings, Important

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.140, Sophia Institute Press

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• 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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• 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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• It is in this space of mastery over paradigms that people throw off addictions, live in constant joy, bring down empires, get locked up or burned at the stake or crucified or shot, and have impacts that last for millennia.

  Donella Meadows

  Impact, Space, People

  Donella Meadows (2008). “Thinking in Systems: A Primer”, p.165, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Human sacrifice is much in vogue right now. The Republican right thinks that people who get on its nerves, especially women, should be sent to the stake. . .

  Mary McGrory

  Sacrifice, Thinking, People

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• There is too much at stake to worry about our own egos. When my son was killed, I had to face the fact that I was somehow also responsible for what happened. Every American that allows this to continue has, to some extent, blood on their hands. Some of us have a little bit, and some of us are soaked in it.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Son, Blood, Hands

  "This is George Bush’s Accountability Moment". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2005.

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• We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.

  Bill Richardson

  Strong, Heart, People

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• When you attack the enemy, your spirit must go to the extent of pulling the stakes out of a wall and using them as spears and halberds.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Wall, Enemy, Spirit

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings: A Text on Kenjutsu and the Martial Arts in General, Written by the Swordsman Miyamoto Musashi”, p.66, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I think when I started to write The Mysterious Benedict Society that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Writing, Thinking, Mind

  "'Mysterious Benedict': Solve A Puzzle, Save The World". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. March 26, 2012.

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• As someone who was born in Israel, you're put in a position of defending Israel because you know how much is at stake.

  Natalie Portman

  Israel, Born, Position

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• There really is confusion out there. Finding common ground sounds good. But the reality is, a lot of people on all sides have a stake in the fight.

  Charles Haynes

  Fighting, Reality, People

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• The Jesuits were quite balked by those Indians who, being burned at the stake, suggested new modes of tortures to their tormentors. Being superior to physical suffering, it sometimes chanced that they were superior to any consolation which the missionaries could offer; and the law to do as you would be done by fell with less persuasiveness on the ears of those who, for their part, did not care how they were done by, who loved their enemies after a new fashion, and came very near freely forgiving them all they did.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fashion, Law, Forgiving

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.53, Graphic Arts Books

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• It is in the name of Jesus, himself become God, that fanaticism ignominiously condemned to the stake men like Giodano Bruno, Vanini, Étienne Dolet, John Huss, Savanarola, and numerous other heroic victims; that the Inquisition ordered Galileo to belie his conscience; that thousands and thousands of unfortunates accused of witchcraft were burnt alive in popular ceremonies; it was with the express benediction of Pope Gregory XIII that the butchery of St. Bartholomew drenched Paris in blood.

  Camille Flammarion

  Religious, Jesus, Men

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• I don't know about "dream role." I do so many dramatic roles or period films or [play] traumatized people or stressed-out people or very intense things, high stakes happening all the time.

  Clea DuVall

  Dream, Play, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are more stakes [in Mary and Jane], which is always good.

  Deborah Kaplan

  Mary, Jane

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