Buford Twain's Quote for March 8 2010

"In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the stakes at issue."
-Wallace Stanley Sayre (1905-1972) U.S. political scientist and professor at Columbia University.

By way of corollary, the law adds: "That is why academic politics are so bitter." 

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