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Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniencys and Comforts of Life, when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to be rejected not with Reluctance but with Pleasure. -- George Mason
Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze. -- Horace
When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me. -- Lars von Trier
All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake. -- Indira Gandhi
Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive. -- Ann Oakley
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times. -- Martin Luther
The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment. -- Sting
If my kids came to me and said, 'I'm gay,' I'd say, 'Son, I love you.' That's never at stake. Never, never, never at stake. -- Kirk Cameron
I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily. -- John Mayer
In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!' -- Damian Lewis
Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime. -- Kailash Satyarthi
Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake. -- J. Donald Walters
If you don't have a real stake in the new, then just surviving on the old - even if it is about efficiency - I don't think is a long-term game. -- Satya Nadella
All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake. -- John Shelby Spong
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. -- Benjamin Disraeli
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
When you've got the Daytona 500 out there at stake and everything riding on the line, guys go for it, and the guys that go for it are the ones that are either going to win or they're going to wreck. -- Jeff Gordon
Many young Muslims see no opportunities for themselves and do not feel they have control over their lives or a stake in their nation's future. Such pessimism leads to disengagement. We risk losing a generation of young Muslims to apathy and extremism. -- Najib Razak
Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy. -- Charles Krauthammer
A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. -- H. G. Wells
The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.' -- Tom Robbins
God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel. -- Charles Stanley
On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy. -- Nancy Keenan
Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least. -- Adam McKay
I love working if it's with people who are capable of having a good time. People with a little bit of enjoyment of what they do. If it's enormous pressure, and people feel that their lives are at stake, then it's agony. So I try to pick projects where I feel like I'm going to avoid those traps. -- Alan Arkin
It doesn't give me any satisfaction to think that my concerns will be validated by my grandchildren's generation. I would love to be wrong in everything. My grandchildren are my stake in the near future, and it's my great hope that they might one day say, 'Grandpa was part of a great movement that helped to turn things around.' -- David Suzuki
There cannot be enduring peace, prosperity, equality and brotherhood in this world if our aims are so separate and divergent, if we do not accept that in the end we are people, all alike, sharing the Earth among ourselves and also with other sentient beings, all of whom have an equal role and stake in the state of this planet and its players. -- Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
Challenging American leadership is not at stake. -- Vladimir Putin
Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake. -- Fred Thompson
When nothing is at stake, everything's a waste. -- Crystal Woods
A married man turns his staffe into a stake. -- George Herbert
A hot stake is better than a cold chop. -- Curly Howard
We all have a stake in the battle against Ebola, -- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Unless you stake your life, life will not be won. -- Werner Heisenberg
When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake. -- R. C. Sproul
The world never burned a casual Christian at the stake. -- John R. Rice
Each and every day, Israel's very existence is at stake. -- John Boehner
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We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174 -- Tom Robbins
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The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists." -- George P. Shultz
The civilized world has a common stake in defeating the terrorists. -- George P. Shultz
I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon! -- Edmond Rostand
Whoever has the most at stake should have the most power. -- Neal Brennan
Now go and stake some vamps. Especially the sparkly emo ones. -- Kevin Hearne
It is my dream to have a controlling stake of Arsenal. -- Alisher Usmanov
Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake. -- Paul Gibbons
Faced with the election of a Catholic, our culture is at stake. -- Norman Vincent Peale
There has never been more at stake for women's health and rights. -- Hillary Clinton
Names and individuals are unimportant when Germany's final fate is at stake. -- Franz von Papen
Performances are always more interesting to me when something is at stake. -- Kirsten Prout
It's a poore stake that cannot stand one yeare in the ground. -- George Herbert
In order to succeed... you have to put a stake in the ground. -- Jeff Raikes
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. -- Benjamin Disraeli
In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake. -- Aristotle
Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake. -- E. W. Howe
We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience -- Martin Buber
One thing vampire children are taught is, never run with a wooden stake. -- Jack Handey
There's not a higher stake than someone having to face their own death. -- Bryce Dallas Howard
I hate witches. Humans had the right idea, burning them at the stake. -- Charlaine Harris
I think any man would be nervous if his liberty is at stake. -- Wesley Snipes
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it. -- Brendan Behan
Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake. -- Hannah Arendt
Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives. -- Ernst Hanfstaengl
I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me. -- Larry King
Love is for the living, for people who have a stake in the future. -- Simon R. Green
The world is scary, and things are overwhelming, and there's a lot at stake. -- Joss Whedon
When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act. -- Barack Obama
All things are possible, once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake. -- Norman Cousins
Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. -- Geraldine Brooks
The reason academic disputes are so vicious is that so little is at stake. -- Noam Chomsky
Do you think we should drive a stake through his heart just in case? -- Peter Lorre
Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake. -- Raymond E. Feist
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. -- Virginie des Rieux
Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor. -- Friedrich Schiller
Work with your competitors when the interest of the community and planet are at stake. -- Simon Mainwaring
Humanity as a species must change dramatically and radically or our survival is at stake... -- Eckhart Tolle
Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections. -- Mario Vargas Llosa
It is rational to believe, as it is our very existence that is at stake. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about. -- Michael Pollan
For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose. -- Khaled Hosseini
There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization. -- Brad Henry
The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake. -- Arthur C. Brooks
We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said. -- John Piper
The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something. -- Henry Norris Russell
The fellow who tends the greenhouse gardens? Trust me, Lady, you'd let him stake your tomatoes. -- Kristin Cashore
When there is more money at stake it affects the atmosphere and things become more businesslike. -- Bernie Ecclestone
I say we should stake him to an anthill and throw little pickles at him! (Selena) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake. -- John F. Kennedy
There is more at stake here than just our lives. It is the lives around us. -- Jonathan Kent
No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
Any idiot can be brave, but courage is about knowing what's at stake, and moving forward anyway. -- Meg Ryan
The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist. -- Henry Steele Commager
A national primary election would electrify the people and give them a larger stake in the outcome. -- Leopoldo Lopez
What is always at stake in any decision we make is what that choice turns us into. -- Terryl L. Givens
The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated. -- Bob Schaffer
Usually my form of turning someone down was shoving a stake through his heart while smirking, Gotcha! -- Jeaniene Frost
As a new entrepreneur, you need a stake in the game, but you can't risk it all. -- Alexa Von Tobel
To be first-rate at anything you have to stake your all. Nobody's an artist 'on the side'. -- Eleanor Clark
When the lives and the rights of children are at stake, there must be no silent witnesses. -- Carol Bellamy
When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimentalâ??far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns. -- Franz Grillparzer
I think if I had lived back in Salem, I would have been burned at the stake -- Rose McGowan
Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake. -- Viktor E. Frankl
True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake. -- Henry Williamson
No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake. -- Clinton Rossiter
If you have to be burned at the stake, be a good fellow and collect your own fire-wood. -- George Ade
When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities. -- Jack Kemp
There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country? -- Jon Voight
We have a stake in one another...what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart. -- Barack Obama
If it's about the lives of my soldiers at stake, I'd go through hell with a gasoline can. -- Allen West
With so much at stake in this election, both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan should 'go rogue.' -- Sarah Palin
Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what. -- Michael Shermer
Look, I think the public generally understands that what's at stake in Afghanistan is American security, number one. -- Paul Wolfowitz
Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world. -- Ludwig Boltzmann
If anything, there's more at stake when you're older, and more responsibility and more legitimate things to worry about. -- Rob Corddry
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them. -- Rudolf Virchow
A lot of science started off as magic, where people were burned at the stake for doing science basically. -- Larry Wilmore
We have a situation where the security of America is at stake, and it's a very, very serious situation. -- Donald Trump
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake. -- Wendell Phillips
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life. -- Jean Giraudoux

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