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• Oil depletion and climate change will create an entirely new context in which political struggles will be played out. Within that context, it is not just freedom, democracy, and equality that are at stake, but the survival of billions of humans and of whole ecosystems.

  Richard Heinberg

  Struggle, Oil, Ecosystems

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• In search of some rest, in search of a break From a life of tests where something's always at stake Where something's always so far What about my broken car? What about my life so far? What about my dream?

  Barry Privett

  Life, Dream, Broken

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• We all faced painful ethical challenges before we even knew how to spell our names. There were tough choices. Tradeoffs. Confusing signals regarding how to live one's life. And here we are now, today, still struggling. Still trying to sort things out. Still trying to work our way through life effectively. About the only thing that has changed is the scope of the problem. There's more at stake now. And we're in a position, as grownups, to do a lot more-good or bad-for ourselves, our organization, our world. But we still must wrestle with our imperfect ethics.

  Price Pritchett

  Life, Pain, Struggle

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• The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.

  Albert Einstein

  Failure, Men, Tasks

  "Only Then Shall We Find Courage", New York Times Magazine, June 23, 1946.

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• Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our society suffers with the collapse of the relationship of the couple who brings a child into the world.

  William J Doherty

  Marriage, Children, Couple

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• The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression, but also for enthusiastic justifications for slavery, persecution, abandonment of small children, torture, and genocide... Moreover, religion enshrined hierarchy, authority, and inequality... It was the age of equality that brought about the disappearance of such religious appurtenances as the auto-da-fe and burning at the stake.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Religious, Children, Rights

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• The acceleration of the marketing process, the concentrating of manufacturing, greater diversification, increased international competition, have in turn speeded up product improvements, product innovations and new product introductions. The stakes are high, the failures costly.

  Tom Sutton

  Business, Competition, Innovation

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• Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final soliloquy of Clay, the protagonist in LeRoi Jones’ (aka Amiri Baraka’s) play Dutchman. You’d better be glad Charlie Parker could play him some horn and Bessie Smith could sing, because if they didn’t make music they might murder you. One would be hard pressed to find another group of people on this planet whose music is a surrogate for murder. One would be hard pressed to another group of people on this planet whose life is a proxy for death.

  Frank B. Wilderson III

  Aka, Play, People

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• A cardinal principle in systems theory is that all parties that have a stake in a system should be represented in its management.

  Malcolm Knowles

  Party, Intelligence, Principles

  Malcolm Shepherd Knowles (1984). “The Adult Learner: A Neglected Species”, Gulf Publishing Company

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• Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, Giving Up, War

  Albert Einstein (2017). “Einstein on Peace”, p.594, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, and the stakes too high to permit the customary passions of political debate. We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future. As Winston Churchill said on taking office some twenty years ago: if we open a quarrel between the present and the past, we shall be in danger of losing the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Passion, Past, Thinking

  Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, en.wikisource.org. July 15, 1960.

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• To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that God matters enough to be worth some anger. To be indifferent to God is to pay God the supreme insult. It is to say that nothing of consequence is at stake.

  Robert McAfee Brown

  Thought Provoking, Matter, Pay

  Robert McAfee Brown (1983). “Elie Wiesel, messenger to all humanity”

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• Hurray, Hallelujah, and Happy Prostate! Finally, someone has taken the years and done the work, so the rest of us no longer need suffer from ignorance as to how to have good prostate health. That someone is Roger Mason, and all that one needs to know in order to have a happy prostate has been distilled down into this one book. I would stake the health of my prostate on it, and can tell you as a prostate cancer survivor; it is the ONLY way to go.

  Dirk Benedict

  Cancer, Book, Taken

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• The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our survival is just as much at stake as it was at the time of Pearl Harbor, or the Argonne, or Gettysburg, or Saratoga.

  Jim Wright

  Rain, Rivers, Water

  Jim Wright (1966). “The Coming Water Famine”, New York : Coward-McCann

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• Pro football is a game; not a war. It's for win or lose, not life or death... but say that in the summer, for winter brings the playoffs, and a season is at stake.

  John Facenda

  Summer, Football, War

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• With control of the universe at stake, a crash program is imperative.We produced the A-bomb, under the huge Manhattan Project, in an amazingly short time. The needs, the urgency today are even greater. The Air Force should end UFO secrecy, give the facts to scientists,the public, to Congress. Once the people realize the truth, they would back, even demand a crash program...for this is one race we dare not lose.

  Donald Keyhoe

  Race, Air, People

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• Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.

  Margaret Halsey

  Children, Justice, Diversity

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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• Concentrated power can be always wielded in the interest of the few and at the expense of the many. Government in its last analysis is this power reduced to a science. Governments never lead; they follow progress. When the prison, stake or scaffold can no longer silence the voice of the protesting minority, progress moves on a step, but not until then.

  Lucy Parsons

  Struggle, Moving, Power

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• Bing Crosby and I play a lot of golf together and I have a small course at my place where we often play for side stakes. The only troulbe is that when I win, I always have to engage and attorney before I can draw the money.

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Winning, Play

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• To raise positive kids, we as parents must identify the qualities necessary for success, convince our children that they have the potential for success, and show them how to stake their claims in life.

  Zig Ziglar

  Positive, Children, Kids

  Zig Ziglar (2002). “Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World”, p.25, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We have a stake in one another...what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart.

  Barack Obama

  Diversity, Together, Greater

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• What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it.

  Cesar Chavez

  Men, Doe, Demand

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• Niko, you're halfway to where you need to go. It's the most dangerous time. And all the gods and forces have a stake in you, Hero. Or do you want to be just a memory, a cult somewhere, with people sacrificing horses to your name?

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Horse, Memories

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• Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam.

  David Hackworth

  War, People, Survival

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• The rabbis, the Jewish religious people, the priests of the temple of Jerusalem, they were learned fools. They could not tolerate Jesus. The learned fools are always disturbed by the blessed fools. They had to murder him because his very presence was uncomfortable; his very presence was such a pinnacle of peace, love, compassion and light, that all the learned fools became aware that their whole being was at stake. If this man lived then they were fools, and the only way to get rid of this man was to destroy him so they could. again become the learned people of the race.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Jesus, Blessed

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