Are you ready for another year?

It's just a number, people. Get over yourselves. Here are the answers.

1. For last year's words belong to last year's language
   
   And next year's words await another voice. TS Eliot.
2. May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall! Aleister Crowley.
3. Each age has deemed the new-born year
   
   The fittest time for festal cheer. Walter Scott.
4. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain.
5. Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you’ve met your New Year’s resolution. Jay Leno.
6. Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy. Akhenaton.
7. All of us every single year, we are a different person. I do not think we are the same person all our lives. Steven Spielberg.
8. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. Oprah Winfrey.
9. We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden. Goethe.
10. Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering 'it will be happier'... Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

In other words: time is an illusion. New Year's Resolutions, bah, humbug.

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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