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41 " Happy New Year' is a festive form of address often uttered without thinking. Yet how many souls will in fact be happy in the coming year is a taxing question requiring a great deal more thought. "
― Alex Morritt , Impromptu Scribe
42 " Better to reach your deathbed with regrets for things done rather than remorses for things never tried. "
― Alex Morritt
43 " Making New Year resolutions is one thing. Remaining resolute and seeing them through is quite another. "
44 " How many of your contemporaries - when asked the question 'Are you glad you had kids'? - invariably respond 'Yes, but..'? "
45 " Red onion skins and New Year's Eve have much in common - they both peel away to reveal new vibrancy. "
46 " Watching Nigel Farage rudely insult fellow members of the European Parliament today - the first occasion they were all assembled in Brussels since the tragic 'Brexit' referendum result - made me feel utterly ashamed to be British. Let it be known that Nigel Farage is the very epitomy of a narrow-minded 'Little Englander' who does not represent the vast majority of outward-looking people from Great Britain. His shameful and unofficial campaign to convince the British electorate to leave the European Union was peppered with lies and deceit. His populist and xenophobic rhetoric has also subsequently contributed to ugly scenes of racial abuse and hate crime directed at Eastern European nationals and ethnic minorities living and working in the UK, in the wake of the referendum result. Fellow Europeans, world citizens, let this be a wake-up call. Deny your own domestic peddlers of populism and nationalism the opportunity to follow the example of this unelected, disrespected maverick, intent on making a name for himself, for he has unwittingly unleashed a wrecking ball on Britain's future economic prosperity, cultural diversity and social harmony. "
47 " If bread - the staff of life - feeds the body; stories nourish the soul. "
48 " The pen may indeed be mightier than the sword, but the wordsmith would do well to welcome the blacksmith back into the fold, so that artisan craftsmanship the world over may fend off the ravages of industrialised homogeneity and bland monoculture. "
49 " If the original architects of the 'European dream' were to wake from their slumber, they would no doubt be turning in their graves at the threats to the Union posed by today's unparalleled mass migration and surge in home grown terrorism. Luckily for them, it is the nightmare of Europe's current leaders to ponder the challenges of reinstating national borders, curbing free movement of people, combating extremism, all of which in turn may lead to disintegration of the European Union itself and all that it stands for. "
50 " A fine single malt whisky, of course, is purely medicinal - it cures all manner of ailments one may care to imagine. "
51 " If ever an obsolete term urgently needed redefining, the humble 'glove compartment' would surely win any contest hands down. "
52 " Motorcycle adventures are the perfect antidote to middle age. "
53 " New year—a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours. "