“I prize every candle in the darkness of the universe, even if it is not a supernova of blinding illumination.”

— Thomas Flanagan (political scientist)

Source: Game Theory and Canadian Politics (1998), Chapter 10, What Have We Learned?, p. 170 (Last text line...).

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