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“Stereotyped as convention-going, pocket-protector-wearing, chess-playing, infrequently-showering types, nerds are one of our society's most ridiculed groups. And, for a university with an international reputation as a bastion of intellectualism, Harvard is startlingly devoid of them.”

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Dull words are what make many bright sentences shine. They do not call attention to themselves.

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George Washington didn't have to make us laugh; he just had to establish precedents and avoid chopping down more cherry trees than he could…

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At Harvard, people like to impart the idea that you are a mover and shaker.

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It's easier to find the joke in something when you think, 'This - this is ridiculous.'

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