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• If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work may be read. But a writer will work anyway, as I do, and as I have, in part to explore this terra incognita, this dangerous ground I seem to need to risk.

  Frederick Busch

  Risk, Matter, Needs

  Frederick Busch (2011). “A Dangerous Profession: A Book About the Writing Life”, p.31, Macmillan

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• Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer...? If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Christmas, Heart

  "A Christmas Carol". Book by Charles Dickens, 1843.

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• Write plays that matter. Raise the stakes. Shout, yell, holler, but make yourself heard. It's time for playwrights to reclaim the theatre. We do that by speaking from the heart about the things that matter most to us. If a play isn't worth dying for, maybe it isn't worth writing.

  Terrence McNally

  Writing, Heart, Play

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• She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

  Abraham Verghese

  Medicine, Feelings, Emergencies

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.42, Random House India

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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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• The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us. we ought, for so dear a stake, to sacrifice every attachment & every enmity.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Sacrifice, Attachment, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.234, Rowman & Littlefield

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• ...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of nihilism and has nihilistic implications. I will not pretend that the case against nihilism and for civilization is an easy one to make. We are here confronting the most fundamental of philosophical questions, on the deepest levels. In short, the matter of pornography and obscenity is not a trivial one, and only superficial minds can take a bland and untroubled view of it.

  Irving Kristol

  Philosophical, Views, Civilization

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• We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.

  Catherine Fahringer

  Atheist, Science, Years

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• I've never protected the president [in real life], but I have been a new dad, and I can tell you that being a new dad is pretty terrifying. I'm pretty sure that something about the president makes the stakes a little higher, but to me as a new father, nothing is more important or scary than protecting a daughter.

  Channing Tatum

  Daughter, Dad, Real

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• Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another's life, another's death, I stake my whole eternity.

  Horatius Bonar

  Life, Death, Christian

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• The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Knowledge, Science, Limits

  "On Man". 1849.

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• I had no idea how Stevenson's cases would hold up under close scrutiny. But given what was at stake - nothing less than possible concrete evidence of life after death - weren't they at least worth a visit?

  Tom Shroder

  Ideas, Atheism, Life After Death

  Tom Shroder (1999). “Old Souls: The Scientific Evidence for Past Lives”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Remember, the essence of storytelling demands that we place our main characters on a path. A quest with something at stake, with something to do, to achieve, to learn, and to change.

  Larry Brooks

  Character, Essence, Quests

  Larry Brooks (2011). “Story Engineering”, p.77, Writer's Digest Books

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• I stake the future on the few humble and hearty lovers who seek God passionately in the marvelous, messy world of redeemed and related realities that lie in front of our noses.

  William McNamara

  Lying, Humble, Reality

  William McNamara (1977). “Mystical passion: spirituality for a bored society”

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• At stake are the lives of many children who will be discriminated against in advance, and deprived of their human development given by a father and a mother and willed by God. At stake is the total rejection of God’s law engraved in our hearts.

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Cardinal Bergoglio Hits Out at Same-Sex Marriage". www.ncregister.com. July 8, 2010.

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• Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Travel, White

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.450, Penguin

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• There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?

  Jon Voight

  Country, Real, War

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• We who live in free market societies believe that growth and prosperity, and ultimately human fulfillment are created from the bottom up, not the government down.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Government, People

  "A MAN TRUE TO HIS WORD".

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• We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.

  Martin Buber

  Should, Existence, Whole

  "Martin Buber: An Intimate Portrait". Book by Aubrey Hodes, 1971.

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• What is at stake is how to answer the potential threat Iraq represents with the risk of proliferation of WMD. Baghdad's regime did use such weapons in the past. Today, a number of evidences may lead to think that, over the past four years, in the absence of international inspectors, this country has continued armament programs.

  Jacques Chirac

  Country, Thinking, Past

  "Interview with French President Jacques Chirac". L'Orient-Le Jour Interview, www.globalpolicy.org. October 16, 2002.

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• Iraq is the central battleground in the war on terror. The terrorists certainly know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts there. They know that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their interests.

  Elizabeth Dole

  War, Blow, Iraq

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• The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Temptation, Temper

  C. S. Lewis (1964). “Reflections on the Psalms”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He that comes to Christ cannot, it is true, always get on as fast as he would. Poor coming soul, thou art like the man that would ride full gallop whose horse will hardly trot. Now the desire of his mind is not to be judged of by the slow pace of the dull jade he rides on, but by the hitching and kicking and spurring as he sits on his back. Thy flesh is like this dull jade, it will not gallop after Christ, it will be backward though thy soul and heaven lie at stake.

  John Bunyan

  Art, Horse, Lying

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• I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!

  Edmond Rostand

  Dies

  Edmond Rostand (1995). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, Talonbooks Limited

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• To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound  like a burden, but in practice few things in life afford quite as much satisfaction.

  Michael Pollan

  Practice, Things In Life, Sound

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing

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