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hifiguy

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18. It is enough to scare the hair off a gorilla.

Reply to daleanime (Reply #17)

Fri Jun 19, 2015, 07:55 PM

Jun 2015

When some future historian writes the story of the 20th Century, he or she will doubtless mention Milton Friedman in the same sentence with Stalin, Hitler and Mao when the topic is "people who did the most damage to the world."

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