For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of…

Thomas Sowell
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For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before. ✨ Thomas Sowell (1995). The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy, p.118, Basic Books
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