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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared. ↗

— Jane Porter

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My business has doubled in ways I couldn't have imagined. ↗

— Matthew Lesko

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We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason. ↗

— Barry McCaffrey

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I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office. ↗

— Barack Obama

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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

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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

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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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A simple idea. And the man that worked on it, Mike Gabriel, doubled the value. Beautiful job. I should say triple. We have others like that, but, unfortunately, shorts, which are my favorite approach, are economically of no value. ↗

— Joe Grant

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I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The latest scientific assessment has almost doubled the predicted rate of warming if no changes are made. ↗

— Donella Meadows

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