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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
Charles Kettering
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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.
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Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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One fails forward toward success.
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Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
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The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
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Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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