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I am so old that I can remember when liberals were liberal - instead of being intolerant of anything and anybody that is not politically correct.

Thomas Sowell

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Thomas Sowell
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: June 30
Economist
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Gastonia
North Carolina
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