Bard at Large
Don't get me wrong, I'm right
13 April 2025 - 00:00
“If at age 20 you’re not a socialist, you have no heart. However, if at age 30 you’re not a capitalist, then you have no brain.” This quote has been attributed to at least two of the usual suspects of dead white men who get credit for any vaguely philosophically interesting utterance, in this case Winston Churchill and George Bernard Shaw. The other two suspects in this quartet of prolific quote machines are Albert Einstein and Mark Twain...
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