What I think is really tragic is that assertions have been made not only without evidence being offered, but without anyone even asking for evidence. It's as if these are self-evident truths that have been brought down from the mountainside.
— Thomas Sowell, Firing Line: The Economic Lot of Minorities (Buckley) (1981)
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