January 2012
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“From New Year’s on the outlook brightens; good humour lost in a mood of failure...”
– Leonard Bernstein
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“New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.”
– Charles Lamb
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“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom...”
– Hal Borland
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“Ideas are easy. Knowing what to do with them is hard.”
– #2: Spoken by cartoonist Richard Thompson shortly before being awarded the Reuben Award as Cartoonist of the Year for 2011. VQ’s 10 Favourite Quotes of 2011
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“Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things...”
– Ann Landers
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“Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you...”
– Sydney Smith
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“Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.”
– Sir Walter Scott
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“Don’t be afraid of making an ass of yourself. I do it all the time, and...”
– #3: Actor William Shatner addressing University of McGill graduates after receiving an honorary degree. VQ’s 10 Favourite Quotes of 2011
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“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and...”
– Helen Keller
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“The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has...”
– Edward Payson Powell
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“Celebrate what you want to see more of.”
– Tom Peters
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“Love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than...”
– #4: Late NDP leader, Jack Layton, in a letter to Canada written shortly before his death. VQ’s 10 Favourite Quotes of 2011
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“Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is...”
– Franz Grillparzer
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“Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly....”
– Judith Crist
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“Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn’t it, of a long line of proven...”
– Ogden Nash
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“She even wanted to be late for her own funeral.”
– #5: Stated by Elizabeth Taylor’s publicist and close friend, Sally Morrison, on the late icon’s wish for her funeral to begin 15 minutes late. VQ’s 10 Favourites Quotes of 2011
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“New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to...”
– Mark Twain
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“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next...”
– T.S. Eliot
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“New Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march...”
– Hamilton Wright Mabie
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“I think if anyone tells you the odds are slim, just keep walking. Just do...”
– #6: Star of the television show Mike & Molly, Melissa McCarthy, offering advice to aspiring actresses after her Emmy win for Best Actress. VQ’s 10 Favourite Quotes of 2011
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“New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does...”
– James Agate
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“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”
– Oprah Winfrey
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“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them...”
– Edith Lovejoy Pierce
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“The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to...”
– #7: U.S. President Barack Obama, speaking of the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. VQ’s 10 Favourite Quotes of 2011
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“The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in...”
– W.H. Auden
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“Why won’t they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the...”
– John Dos Passos
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“I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of...”
– Anais Nin
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“Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.”
– #8: Spoken by Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling at the London premiere of the eighth and final instalment of the movie franchise, as a thanks to her fans. VQ’s 10 Favourite Quotes of 2011
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“Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or...”
– Thomas Mann
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“May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.”
– Joey Adams
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“It wouldn’t be New Years if I didn’t have regrets.”
– William Thomas
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“I can’t say I have any regrets. It’s been an excellent ride.”
– #9: Seven time Tour de France winner, Lance Armstrong, on his retirement from competitive cycling. VQ’s 10 Favourite Quotes of 2011
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“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the...”
– John Burroughs
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“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no...”
– Oscar Wilde
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“Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was...”
– Brooks Atkinson
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“The last time there was a naked man covered in gold paint in my house, it was...”
– #10: Underground British graffiti artist, Banksy, on his Oscar nomination from the documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop. VQ’s 10 Favourite Quotes of 2011
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“Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh...”
– Henry Ward Beecher
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“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbours, and let each...”
– Benjamin Franklin
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“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays...”
– Bill Vaughan
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“The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary...”
– Peter McWilliams
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“Literature is news that stays news.”
– Ezra Pound
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“Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one’s own person...”
– Patricia Sampson
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“Nothing ever goes away.”
– Barry Commoner
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“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”
– James Thurber
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“Everything you can imagine is real.”
– Pablo Picasso
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“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you...”
– Mark Twain
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“I think, therefore I am.”
– Descartes
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“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you...”
– Ronald Reagan
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“Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.”
– Berthold Auerbach
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“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”
– B.F. Skinner