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I have never understood why it is greed to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

Thomas Sowell

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Thomas Sowell
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: June 30
Economist
University Teacher
Gastonia
North Carolina
Greed
Understood
Somebody
Keep
Money
Else
Take
Earned
Never
Libertarian

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