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Tag Name "Stake" (321)

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Universality of the UN is a worthwhile thing in its own self because it means that every country belongs, feels it has a stake, and participates, rather than going away and finding other methods of conducting international relations.
Shashi Tharoor
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I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance between the work imagined and the work achieved wherein it is to be found that the ceaseless labor is the freedom of play, that what’s at stake isn’t a reflection in the mirror of fame but the escape from the prison of the self.
Lewis H. Lapham
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We want to explore. We're curious people. Look back over history, people have put their lives at stake to go out and explore ... We believe in what we're doing. Now it's time to go.
Eileen Collins
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Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.
Martha Ostenso
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People need to believe that they can participate fully in the decisions that affect their lives and have a stake in the societies in which they live
Jacqueline Novogratz
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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
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Those who count on quote 'Hollywood' for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who's going to stand up for them when their job is at stake. Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.
Christopher Dodd
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
Naguib Mahfouz
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I think if anybody had a roll of dice with a lot of money at stake, they would not want Wes Craven and a romantic comedy.
Wes Craven
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The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.
Bob Schaffer
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The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse, or he can put it back in his pocket at the very last minute.
Robert Capa
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That's give [Donald Trump] so much attention. And it's so funny. There actually have conflicting opinions on women in combat, in the military. So they have all the issues that stake. I'm more concerned with the VA than anything else.
John McCain
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Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.
Michael Shermer
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No marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose.
Sheri L. Dew
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Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.
William James
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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
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I played with fire, did counsel spurn, Made life my common stake But never thought that fire would burn, O that a soul could ache.
Henry Vaughan
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There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.
Brad Henry
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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
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In these uncertain times, I know 100 percent that I can stake my life on the unshakeable, unchanging promises of God!
Sheila Walsh
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Your dad would stake me out to freeze if I let you fall and hurt yourself. He offered me his arm, which I latched onto gratefully. He wouldn't stake you out, I panted as we forced our way through the hard top layer of snow that was almost thigh deep. He'd just shoot you. Well that's a comfort.
P. C. Cast
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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
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It hurts me because of what he's doing to boxing. Because one of the most important world titles is at stake now. The champion has to defend it against the best.
Sergio Martinez
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Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
Naveen Jain
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