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Originally Posted by legion
I've called him the greatest mind of our time. I still think it's true.
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No question.
The other writer I turn to often is Paul Johnson. He and Sowell were friends. Sowell had a big impact on Johnson and I am sure the reverse is true.
From Sowell's list of favorite quotes, also one of mine:
The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.
--Paul Johnson