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Envy plus rhetoric equals social justice..

Thomas Sowell

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Thomas Sowell
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: June 30
Economist
University Teacher
Gastonia
North Carolina
Justice
Social
Equals
Rhetoric
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Envy

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