Carolina QuotesHistory shows that degeneracy can be turned around because it has been done in the past. But the real question today is: Will we turn it around-or is what we are doing likely to make matters worse?
Thomas Sowell Carolinian
Source
Barbarians inside the Gates?
- work
- Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)
- year
- 1999
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