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Sayre’s Law #392

Open jsolly opened 2 years ago

jsolly commented 2 years ago

• Sayre's law states, in a formulation quoted by Charles Philip Issawi: "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake." By way of corollary, it adds: "That is why academic politics are so bitter."