Carolina QuotesJust 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. (27 December 2002)
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- Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)
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- 1999
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