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Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is.

Thomas Sowell

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