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“Develop and protect a moral sensibility and demonstrate the character to apply it. Dream big. Work hard. Think for yourself. Love everything you love, everyone you love, with all your might. And do so, please, with a sense of urgency, for every tick of the clock subtracts from fewer and fewer.”
― David McCullough Jr.

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“Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.”
― David McCullough Jr.

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“I couldn't understand how anyone would take hold of a stranger and pour out their troubles. But now I realized that people did it all the time. They called for help. And some people would answer, out of a sense of duty and a sense of belonging to the world around them.”
― Amy Stewart

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“Memory is so integrated into every aspect of life—from thinking, to communicating, to forming and sustaining relationships, to creating continuity, meaning, and coherence—that its disappearance is incomprehensible. We simply have no cognitive framework that allows for its absence in others.”
― Dasha Kiper, Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain

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“Facebook automatically tagging your friends in photos; Apple and Google letting people look at their phones to unlock them; digital billboards from Microsoft and Intel with cameras that detected age and gender to show passersby appropriate ads.”
― Kashmir Hill, Your Face Belongs to Us: A Tale of AI, a Secretive Startup, and the End of Privacy

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Books on the Nightstand — 6115 members — last activity 21 hours, 59 min ago
A group to discuss books and topics mentioned on Books on the Nightstand, a blog and podcast about books and reading.

The Penguin Press — 1470 members — last activity Mar 28, 2017 12:09PM
Welcome to our Goodreads Group for The Penguin Press! We like to say that we publish "ideas that matter and storytelling that lasts," and some of our ...more

National Book Critics Circle — 332 members — last activity May 04, 2021 06:29AM
The National Book Critics Circle honors outstanding writing and fosters a national conversation about reading, criticism and literature.

Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club — 17399 members — last activity 1 hour, 22 min ago
You just found the Official unofficial Goodreads Choice Awards Book Club. We will read the Goodreads Choice Awards winning books throughout the year b ...more

Tournament of Books — 2370 members — last activity Aug 25, 2026 11:41PM
This book group was established for those interested in participating in The Morning News's Tournament of Books. Please do not feel the need to finish ...more

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