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Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.

Robert Genn

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Robert Genn
Age: 78 †
Born: 1936
Born: May 15
Died: 2014
Died: May 27
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Robert Douglas Genn
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