2026 Reading Challenge

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  • #1
    Timothy Leary
    “Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
    ― Timothy Leary
    tags: ambition, equality
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  • #2
    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: americans, geography, war
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  • #3
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: anti-christian, christianity, christians, jesus-christ
    6225 likes

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  • #4
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: dance, music
    10918 likes

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  • #5
    Winston S. Churchill
    “My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: humor, taste
    5977 likes

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  • #6
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
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  • #7
    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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  • #8
    Douglas Adams
    “You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
    tags: learning
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  • #9
    Douglas Adams
    “Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: politics, presidency, truth, wishful-thinking
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  • #10
    Douglas Adams
    “Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
    tags: douglas-adams
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  • #11
    Douglas Adams
    “Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
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  • #12
    Douglas Adams
    “Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: humor
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  • #13
    Douglas Adams
    “The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: paradox, religion
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  • #14
    Douglas Adams
    “Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto about?”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: beauty, beauty-in-literature, beauty-in-nature, wodehouse
    100 likes

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  • #15
    Douglas Adams
    “The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: failure
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  • #16
    Douglas Adams
    “Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.”
    ― Douglas Adams
    tags: 248, fiction, life, marvin, on-fiction
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  • #17
    Douglas Adams
    “You come to me for advice, but you can't cope with anything you don't recognize. Hmmm. So we'll have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like news, eh Well, business as usual , I suppose.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: 703, advice
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  • #18
    Douglas Adams
    “And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs.”
    ― Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
    tags: nature
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  • #19
    Flannery O'Connor
    “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
    tags: truth
    5548 likes

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  • #20
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
    ― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    tags: amorality, correct-way, individuality, my-way, only-way, right-way, the-way, your-way
    6753 likes

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  • #21
    Ray Bradbury
    “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: writing
    6451 likes

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  • #22
    Herman Melville
    “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
    ― Herman Melville
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  • #23
    Robert Frost
    “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: love
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  • #24
    John Green
    “Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: amsterdam, freedom, sin
    6287 likes

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  • #25
    Oscar Wilde
    “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
    ― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)
    tags: classic-insult
    5141 likes

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  • #26
    E.E. Cummings
    “Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
    ― E. E. Cummings
    tags: death, life, poetry
    5659 likes

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  • #27
    Hermann Hesse
    “Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
    ― Herman Hesse
    tags: steppenwolf
    4618 likes

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  • #28
    David Foster Wallace
    “Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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  • #29
    Winston S. Churchill
    “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: history, humor, writing
    4564 likes

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  • #30
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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