[beware that] “many of what are called social problems are … - Thomas Sowell

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[beware that] “many of what are called social problems are differences between the theories of intellectuals and the realities of the world — differences which many intellectuals interpret to mean that it is the real world that is wrong and needs changing.

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Thomas Sowell (born June 30, 1930) is an American economist and political commentator. He taught economics at Cornell University, the University of California, Los Angeles, and since 1980 at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he is currently Senior Fellow.

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