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My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
Charles Kettering
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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.
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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
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Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
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I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.
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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
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If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
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The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
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