“People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.”

—  Thomas Sowell

1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)

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American economist, social theorist, political philosopher … 1930

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