Word: smarter
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...life may be unfair, human society can correct for these inequalities. In this respect, Harvard is morally obliged. There are thousands of people in the world—even on this hallowed campus, America’s so-called bastion of justice and equality—who are richer, smarter, and more talented than I am. And yet, despite this abomination, our society, steeped in the rhetoric of equal opportunity, does little to ensure a truly equal system. I’m referring, of course, to the equality of outcome. Why suffer inequity when we can all be the same...
...first few weeks in Cambridge were marked by reverence for those around me, those potentially brilliant minds that had yet to prove themselves otherwise. I had from the start, I now acknowledge, an inkling that I might be smarter than practically everyone around me. But my deference to the very name of Harvard prevented such a disquieting thought to blossom beyond mere conjecture...
...only am I smarter than you; I am also more gracious. Indeed for your sake––and for the sake of those who, like myself, can hardly endure another moment in the company of imbeciles––I have compiled a few guidelines for behavior at Harvard College...
...believe that the primary purpose of language to be communication. Clearly they are unfamiliar with academic writing and speaking; even a casual glance at these would reveal that the real aim of language is to confuse and, in so doing, to make others realize that you are smarter than they...
Until then, I shall simply have to resign myself to the fact that I’m smarter than everyone else...