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“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” — Bill Vaughan
“We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one.” — John Greenleaf Whittier
“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
“Resolve to be happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” — Helen Keller
“Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas.” — Charles Kettering
“The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.” — Melody Beattie
“What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” — Vern McLellan
“Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.” — Henry Ward Beecher
“It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.” — George Washington
“The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.” — Charles Dickens