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«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.»
«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.»
Author: J. Donald Walters
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Happiness
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mere, merest, precious, principles, situations, stake, staked, understanding
«I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.»
Author: Jean Giraudoux
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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Game of Life, stake, The Game of Life
«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.»
Author: H. G. Wells
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist, Sociologist)
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dissension, dock, docked, docks, gamble, homicide, homicides, International, noose, nooses, promoted, Reasonable man, stake, surer, willfully
«All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.»
Author: Indira Gandhi
(Politician, Prime Minister)
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arc, arcs, burned, burned at, burned at the stake, burning at the stake, Joan, Joan of, Joan of Arc, perpetually, stake
«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.»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
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Faith
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confidence man, daring, grace, on it, stake, staked, thousand times
«And henceforth, the only honorable course will be to stake everything on a formidable gamble: that words are more powerful than munitions»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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formidable, gamble, henceforth, honorable, munitions, stake
«Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake»
Author: Edgar Watson Howe
(Editor, Essayist, Novelist)
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burned at, burned at the stake, burning at the stake, martyr, stake
«For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o?clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it's all in the balance, it hasn't happened yet, it hasn't even begun yet, it not only hasn't begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it's going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn't need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose and all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago.... William Faulkner, Intruder In The Dust»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
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