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We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.

Charlton Ogburn

Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen as appropriate for your special endowments.

Charlton Ogburn

Charlton Ogburn

Charlton Ogburn

Born: March 15, 1911

Died: October 19, 1998 (aged 87)

Bio: Charlton Ogburn, Jr. was an American journalist and author, most notably of memoirs and non-fiction works.

Known for:

The mysterious William Shakespeare (1984)
The Marauders (1959)
Owen Nobody and Child of Zoltar
Owen Nobody

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