It had long been established in the Civil Worlds that public business was to be transparent, and personal business opaque; but it was as well recognised that the two would always have a turbulent interface, and that the clique, the caucus, and the conspiracy were as ineradicable features of civility as the council or the committee.


Chapter 9 Red Sun Circle (pp. 136-137) - Learning the World (2005)


It had long been established in the Civil Worlds that public business was to be transparent, and personal business opaque; but it was as well...

It had long been established in the Civil Worlds that public business was to be transparent, and personal business opaque; but it was as well...

It had long been established in the Civil Worlds that public business was to be transparent, and personal business opaque; but it was as well...

It had long been established in the Civil Worlds that public business was to be transparent, and personal business opaque; but it was as well...