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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, "Merrill's Marauders", Harpers Magazine, January 1957
- This quotation is often attributed to a much older source, Petronius Arbiter. However, there is no solid evidence of this attribution, and the Harper's Magazine reference has been verified. [note by Michael Moncur, June 29, 2007]
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