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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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I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps. ↗

— Dirk Bogarde

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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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I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield. ↗

— Cole Younger

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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

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I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive. ↗

— John W. Gardner

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I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number. ↗

— Robert Indiana

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Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration. ↗

— Hal Lindsey

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