Carolina QuotesSocialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Thomas Sowell Carolinian
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The Thomas Sowell Reader, New York: NY, Basic Books (2011) p. 144, Forbes magazine, "The survival of the left" (Sept. 8, 1997)
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