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Many colleges claim that they develop 'leaders.' All too often, that means turning out graduates who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do. There are already too many people like that, and they are a menace to everyone else's freedom.

— Thomas Sowell, Dismantling America: And Other Controversial Essays (2010), p. 335

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