Thomas Sowell Quotes

Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.

Thomas Sowell

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• Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.

  

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