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• Perhaps a good resolution for the new year would be to keep asking what world we want to pass on to the next generation. Indeed to ask whether we have a real and vivid sense of that next generation.

  Rowan Williams

  New Year, Real, Years

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• Good resolutions are a pleasant crop to sow. -The seed springs up so readily, and the blossoms open so soon with such a brave show, especially at first. But when the time of flowers has passed, what as to the fruit?

  Lucas Malet

  Spring, Flower, Bravery

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• Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.

  Oscar Wilde

  Law, Useless, Interfere

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.253, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• A resolution to exercise or eat more nutritious foods is a step taking you back to the well-being from which you originated.

  Wayne Dyer

  Exercise, Steps, Well Being

  Wayne W. Dyer (2007). “Change Your Thoughts - Change Your Life”, p.213, Hay House, Inc

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• Good resolutions are a pleasant crop to sow.

  Lucas Malet

  Crops, Pleasant

  Lucas Malet (1885). “Colonel Enderby's Wife: A Novel”

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• Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second.

  Helen Fielding

  New Year, Hangover, Thinking

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes, That borrow their behaviors from the great, Grow great by your example and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Fire, Example

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.347

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• New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

  James Agate

  New Year, Years, Great Year

  James Agate (1946). “A Shorter Ego: Ego 4, Ego 5, Ego 6”

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• For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives Before the other how they ought to act; While one alone, however prompt, resolves More tardily and with a weaker will.

  Homer

  Adventure, Two, Resolve

  Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.260

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• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Funny, New Year

  "The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1923–1927" by Anaïs Nin, Volume 3, September 2, 2014.

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• Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.

  Akbar Ganji

  War, Weapons, Way

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• Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

  David Hume

  Friendship, Spring, Philosophical

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• Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

  William Penn

  Nature, Vow, Hasty

  William Penn (1841). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life. A new ed”, p.41

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• We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Military

  "The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women" by Rosalie Maggio, (p. 156), 1992.

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• Dialogue is the only way to end war and terror. We need practical solidarity with those who are weaker and diplomacy from below.

  Luisa Morgantini

  War, Needs, Way

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• Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on; Back-turning slackens resolution.

  Robert Herrick

  Goes On

  Robert Herrick (1825). “The poetical works of Robert Herrick”, p.76

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• It takes resolution to go forth from the ease and beautiful simplicity of a well-formed hypothesis and struggle with amorphous facts.

  John Maurice Clark

  Beautiful, Struggle, Simplicity

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• Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Character, Important, Steadfast

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• Forgiveness does not overlook the deed. It rises above it.

  Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

  Forgiveness, Doe, Deeds

  Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (2013). “A Human Being Died That Night: Forgiving Apartheid's Chief Killer”, p.112, Portobello Books

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• The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Peace, Giving, Victory

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.76, Harvard University Press

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• Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Peace, Fear

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• You can’t always get what you want. But, if you’re lucky, you get what you need.

  Justin Bieber

  Trying, Lucky, Needs

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• There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Communication, Ties

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• Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

  Saul Alinsky

  Change, Mean, Vacuums

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.21, Vintage

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