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When his face was hid but for a moment, his whole system was on a wide sea, without chart or compass.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “When his face was hid but for a moment, his whole system was on a wide sea, without chart or compass.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke uses a metaphor to describe the vulnerability of a leader's system when faced with uncertainty.
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