Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually they lose touch with reality… and fall. - Frank Herbert
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Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually they lose touch with reality… and fall.
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Frank Herbert
Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. (8 October 1920 – 11 February 1986) was an American science-fiction writer, most famous for his Dune novels.
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