“The aim is not to be better than everyone else, it is to make everyone else better.”

—  - Goa

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“It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.”

Scott Westerfeld book Specials

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“They think they're better than everyone else."
"No," said Jace. "I think I'm better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence."
Kyle looked at Simon. "Does he always talk like this?"
"Yes.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

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“No,” said Jace. “I think I’m better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Variant: I think I’m better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence.
Source: City of Fallen Angels

“The personal comparative is marked by epigrammatic self-satire. It implies that everyone thinks himself better than anyone else, but only the egoist says so.”

Evan Esar (1899–1995) American writer

Humorous English, p91

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“That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.”

Kelley Armstrong book The Summoning

Source: The Summoning

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“She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone else could see.”

Myla Goldberg book Bee Season

Source: Bee Season

“The reason for getting an education here—or anywhere else—is that it is better to be educated than not to be. It is better in and of itself. Not because it gets you something. Not because it is a means to some other end. It is better because it is better. Note that this statement implies that the phrase “aims of education” is nonsensical; education is not a thing of which aims can be predicated. It has no aim other than itself.”

Andrew Abbott (1948) American sociologist and Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago.

Abott (2002) “Welcome to the University of Chicago http://www.ditext.com/abbott/abbott_aims.html Aims of Education Address. 2002

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“I think it's a very confused culture. On the one hand, no one is better than anyone else; no one is prettier. On the other hand, everyone is completely obsessed by their looks and by how they strike the world.”

Martin Amis (1949) Welsh novelist

Playboy interview (2003)
Context: I think it's a very confused culture. On the one hand, no one is better than anyone else; no one is prettier. On the other hand, everyone is completely obsessed by their looks and by how they strike the world. On the one hand, we're all equal; on the other hand, everyone's a superstar. It's all very irrational, like all ideology.

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“Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?”

Budd Schulberg (1914–2009) American novelist and screenwriter

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