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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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here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
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I could do nothing without my problems they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules otherwise we would never have anything new.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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