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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

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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Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.
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