#double

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.


Jean Baudrillard


#also #between #capital #double #each

Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence.


Christine de Pizan


#deceit #defenselessness #double-standards #falsehood #hypocrisy

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.


Joe Biden


#double #graduated #history #i #major

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.


Sun Tzu


#agents #bribe #care #come #conduct

Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom.


John Bright


#bill #carry #cities #double #effort

This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries.


Gro Harlem Brundtland


#burden #countries #development #disease #double

Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.


Kim Campbell


#end #million #more #our #people

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.


Gore Vidal


#bacteria #being #billions #both #die

One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.


Alfred de Vigny


#author #composition #double #fact #hand

Nuclear is not only emissions-free, but renewing our commitment to nuclear power will create countless jobs at a time when our nation endures nearly double-digit unemployment.


Fred Upton


#countless #create #double-digit #endures #jobs