The intellectual's role in society is to ask uncomfortable q... - Mario Vargas Llosa

"The intellectual's role in society is to ask uncomfortable questions and challenge the powerful."

Mario Vargas Llosa Leadership

Novelist Peruvian Born 1936 (age 90)

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