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Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create and maintain.

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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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