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Each year is a new year.

This is the year you really put the stake in the ground.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.

And on 25 January of each year and for many days before it and after it there is not an hour in the day or night when a Burns Supper is not taking place somewhere on this earth.

People can forgive each other.

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

The earth's history over the past several million years is that for every 100,000 years, we go through a dramatic climatic cycle where we get 90,000 years of ice age and 10,000 years of a warm period. I think people today just have the expectation that we deserve a perfectly benign climate forever.

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.