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New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular
annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with
them as usual. ~Mark Twain<br><br>
</font>New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless,
of course, those tests come back positive. ~Jay Leno <br><br>
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let
each new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin <br><br>
<font size=2>I feel that you are justified in looking into the future
with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find
the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this
is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to
make the day's work like a happy child at play. <br>
~Albert Einstein<br><br>
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve.
Middle age is when you're forced to. ~Bill Vaughn<br><br>
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let
each new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin<br><br>
The merry year is born<br>
Like the bright berry from the naked thorn. ~Hartley
Coleridge<br><br>
Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a
duty. ~John Selden<br><br>
New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march
of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things
that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man
has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of
darkness on other nights. ~Hamilton Wright Mabie<br><br>
The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead.
The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail
the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months! ~Edward
Payson Powell<br><br>
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
~Oprah Winfrey<br><br>
Ring out the old, ring in the new,<br>
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:<br>
The year is going, let him go;<br>
Ring out the false, ring in the true.<br>
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850<br><br>
The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk.
This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you
kiss the person you're married to. ~P.J. O'Rourke <br><br>
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start
with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if
necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first
of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the
front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
~Henry Ward Beecher<br><br>
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. ~George William
Curtis<br><br>
For last year's words belong to last year's language<br>
And next year's words await another voice.<br>
And to make an end is to make a beginning.<br>
~T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"<br><br>
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to
put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its
first chapter is New Year's Day. ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce<br><br>
Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore
his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community.
Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and
gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than
ever. ~Mark Twain<br><br>
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<dd><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Natasha
</a><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Vita-More</a>
<dd>Cultural Strategist - Designer
<dd>Future Studies, University of Houston
<dd>President, <a href="http://www.extropy.org/">Extropy Institute</a>
<dd>Member, <a href="http://www.profuturists.com/">Association of
Professional Futurists</a>
<dd>Founder, <a href="http://www.transhumanist.biz/">Transhumanist Arts
& Culture</a>
<dd>Honorary Vice-Chair, <a href="http://transhumanism.org/">World
Transhumanist Association</a>
<dd>Senior Associate, <a href="http://foresight.org/">Foresight
Institute</a>
<dd>Advisor, <a href="http://alcor.org/">Alcor Life Extension
Foundation</a><br><br>
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<dd><i>If you draw a circle in the sand and study only what's inside the
circle, then that is a closed-system perspective. If you study what is
inside the circle and everything outside the circle, then that is an open
system perspective. </i>
<dd>Buckminster Fuller
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