Barack Obama
Politician
"When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act."
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Stakes
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Robert Downey, Jr.
Actor, Producer
"The higher the stakes, the happier I am, the better I will be."
Martin Buber
Philosopher
"We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience."
Viktor E. Frankl
Psychiatrist, Neurologist
"Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake."
Mario Vargas Llosa
Novelist, Essayist
"Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections."
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"We are living through the most exciting, challenging and most critical time in human history. Never before has so much been possible; and never before has so much been at stake."
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"Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor."
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"For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose."
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"A married man turns his staffe into a stake."
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"The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper."
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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."
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"Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake."
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"We have a stake in one another...what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart."
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"The fundamentalist violence is, so is it, an attempt to increase the stakes, i.e. to discourage the potential desertions by showing that defection will cost them dear, that those who adopt other values will be persecuted or even killed."
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"Humanity as a species must change dramatically and radically or our survival is at stake."
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"The stakes ... are too high for government to be a spectator sport."
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"Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality."
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"Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you."
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"We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174"
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"I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me."
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"It's a poore stake that cannot stand one yeare in the ground."
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"Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake."
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"Usually my form of turning someone down was shoving a stake through his heart while smirking, Gotcha!"
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