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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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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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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We work day after day, not to finish things but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
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