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«If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.»
«I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortur»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
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«Of those qualities on which civilization depends, next after courage, it seems to me, comes an open mind, and, indeed, the highest courage is, as Holmes used to say, to stake your all upon a conclusion which you are aware tomorrow may prove false»
«I never saw any of man's baser acts of inhumanity to man. I never saw screaming 'witches' burned at the stake, Christians tossed to starving lions, maidens pushed over the edge of active volcanoes. I never even saw a man going to the electric chair. But until I do, watching Ben Hogan walk up to a five-foot putt is my idea of cruel and inhuman punishment, only a Hitler would enjoy. You feel like saying 'Go home to your wife and kiddies and don't look upon this terrible thing!'»
Author: Jim Murray
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«One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.»
«No stake ever grew old with the bark on»
«Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.»
«Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.»
«I have no emotional stake in Panda fucking.»
«One thing vampire children are taught is, never run with a wooden stake»
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