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Billy Graham Evangelist, Author
New Year

"As this New Year begins, ask God to help you tune your life every day to His Word, so you can bring harmony and joy to those around you."

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Brian Tracy Author, Speaker
New Year

"Your ability to concentrate single-mindedly on one thing, the most important thing, and stay at it until it is complete, is an essential prerequisite for success."

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Tom Ford Fashion Designer
New Year

"I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don't really need to have New Year's resolutions."

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Sheryl Sandberg Business Executive, Author
New Year

"In fact, my New Year's resolution every year, and I'm Jewish so I get two New Years a year, is to meditate, and I fail every time."

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Robert Kiyosaki Businessman, Author
New Year

"Within 7 days, 75% of people will have given up on their New Year's resolutions; that's tomorrow. Evaluate yourself. Don't be one of them."

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Sydney Smith Writer
New Year

"Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment."

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Suzanne Smith Author
New Year

"It's not a giant thing, like graduation, Mardi Gras, Halloween or New Year's. We do get business from it. That's why we put stuff out; we don't skip it. It's our big thing for March."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
New Year

"A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it."

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Hunter S. Thompson Journalist, Author
New Year

"It's hard to say what I meant by "as we know it." I'm not about to go up on a mountain on new year's eve and wait for the lightening to strike."

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Alan King Comedian, Actor
New Year

"That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That's what the trees are all about."

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Blake Mills Musician, Producer
New Year

"I don't want to become this lazy person, a guy who thinks in terms of New Year's resolutions. I really do want to see a change in myself in certain ways, but I want to figure out exactly what they are and not have it be like a diet that I'm trying."

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Ronald Reagan Politician, Actor
New Year

"I've always thought New Year's Day was an especially American tradition, full of the optimism and hope we're famous for in our daily lives -- an energy and confidence we call the American spirit. Perhaps because we know we control our own destiny, we believe deep down inside that working together we can make each new year better than the old."

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