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• It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.

  Lucy Stone

  Two, Victory, Wish

  Letter to Susan B. Anthony in 1891. "The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony" by Ida Husted Harper, 1898.

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• Sexy for me is a curvy woman - doesn't have to be skinny, which I hate anyway. I'm glad [the fashion industry] is changing slowly a little bit now to get more into the boobs and hips again.

  Heidi Klum

  Sexy, Fashion, Hate

  Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Special Interview, 1998.

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• Never be glad that another man has died. Not ever. [...] It never ends. Never... ever... be glad to kill.

  David Gemmell

  Men, Ends, Died

  "Quest for Lost Heroes". Book by David Gemmell, ch. 11, April 12, 1990.

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• I will take the acting work when I can get it. I am not really an actor, that's always apparent but it's work and I'll take it and am always glad for it.

  Henry Rollins

  Acting, Actors, I Can

  "Henry Rollins - Recountdown Tour 2008 Update". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2008.

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• I have more dumb luck thank anybody I know. There must be a convey of guardian angels working twenty-four hours a day looking after me[...] Like the night I first got to Nashville that I laid down in the middle of Broadway, waiting to get run over. It didn't happen [...] I could swear they were keeping me alive just to see what I'd get next, I'm glad they feel that way. I'm trying to help them a little more this days.

  Willie Nelson

  Running, Angel, Night

  "The Facts of Life: And Other Dirty Jokes". Book by Willie Nelson and Larry McMurtry, 2003.

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• Sometimes people decide to write reports even though they haven't been to Guantanamo . And so I would just suggest that people look at some of the work that's been done by people who have been there. But that's not to say that we will not be very glad at the day that conditions permit the closure of Guantanamo and the trying of its inhabitants or for their release.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Writing, People, Trying

  Remarks With British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw At Blackburn Town Hall, Blackburn, England, April 1, 2006.

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• I look at my first books and am glad they weren't published.... You start writing by imitating your heroes, then you keep the heart of that worship in your work. As time goes by, you get other influences and find your own voice.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Hero, Writing

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• Whether you do your work with notes or without them, do it courageously, earnestly, with devotion; with a glad sense of the greatness of it, and a full consecration of every force and faculty to it.

  Richard Salter Storrs

  Greatness, Devotion, Notes

  Richard Salter Storrs (1875). “Conditions of Success in Preaching Without Notes: Three Lectures Delivered Before the Students of the Union Theological Seminary, New York, Januray 13, 20, 27: 1875; with an Appendix”, p.68

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• You can resent your bald spot or be glad you have a head

  Timothy Miller

  Spots, Resent

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• That as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Opportunity, Invention, Advantage

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.178, Applewood Books

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• Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Believe, Men, Wish

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.16, Cambridge University Press

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• Hey Tony [Schiavone], I'm glad to see you back, especially after seeing your front.

  Jim Cornette

  Hey, Seeing, Fronts

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• But I know how this romantic stuff works: one girl's perfect guy is another girl's reject. And right now I'm glad of it.

  Claire LaZebnik

  Girl, Perfect Guy, Stuff

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• When the back-to-the-cities trend started taking root, albeit very unevenly, cities were so glad to finally land deals that they routinely overpaid, not having a solid grasp of the demographic and market forces they should have been channeling instead of subsidizing. It’s especially true for retail and entertainment projects, which generate very poor-quality jobs. I have yet to find a city that has figured out how to ‘take the foot off the pedal’ and stop over-subsidizing, even when gentrification becomes a problem.

  Sandy Smith

  Jobs, Should Have, Land

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• If you had asked me moment, as a lawyer, I would have said I would rather have had a male Democrat on the court. Like most lawyers , I love to win. But I was glad to see O'Connor because she made me normal. Just the fact that she was there with a soprano voice and a ruffley collar made my physical presence less weird and less fraught.

  Linda Hirshman

  Winning, Sopranos, Lawyer

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• Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Penn to me are the two best actors of all time. I'm just glad to have the pleasure to be in an era that they're acting while I'm acting. They're probably the best actors in my mind.

  Channing Tatum

  Two, Mind, Acting

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• I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.

  Alice Walker

  Knowledge, Thinking, Knows

  Alice Walker (1982). “El color púrpura”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Niagara Falls is very nice. I'm very glad I saw it, because from now on if I am asked whether I have seen Niagara Falls I can say yes, and be telling the truth for once.

  John Steinbeck

  Travel, Nice, Fall

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.51, Penguin

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• I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and the solitary place glad.

  John Buchan

  Jobs, Work, Would Be

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• Passing the veil does not alter a man; it certainly takes him from the eyes of flesh, but the capacity, the intelligence, the thinking powers, are all alive and quick; and if they hear the Gospel they will be glad, and the promises are made to them, and they will rejoice in them.

  Parley P. Pratt

  Character, Eye, Men

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• As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Benefits, Invention, Share

  "It's the little things", www.pbs.org. 2002.

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• Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an added good fortune to have parents who take a personal part in the great movements of their time. I am glad and thankful that this was my case.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Struggle, Men, Parent

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2016). “My Own Story”, p.9, The Floating Press

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• I'm glad I'm not a politician.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Politician

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• Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.

  Deborah Bull

  Careers, Dancing, Ballet

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• While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Voice, Government, Kuwait

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