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I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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Just the actual physics of putting it all together, you know, the latter period is actually quite fragmented in terms of the licenses and all those things so it makes a compilation of the full twenty years really a technical minefield. ↗

— Geoff Downes

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There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

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Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school. ↗

— Georg Brandes

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The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal. ↗

— Olympia Brown

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For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts. ↗

— Robert Casey

#almost #america #been #controlled #courts

Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers. ↗

— Michael Dell

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No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

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I was like a kept woman during my twenty-one years at MGM. ↗

— Walter Pidgeon

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I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

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