Appearing Quote by Frank Herbert

“Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.”

Frank Herbert

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“Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree.”

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The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer.

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“how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty—which was to step aside and vanish into history.”

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“What we should have done was test the gift first. We should have probed for dangers. We were too bedazzled by it, though.”

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“Have you noticed, Stil, how beautiful the young women are this year?”

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“Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating disease of intellect: self-deception. The best of all possible worlds and the…

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Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

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