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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.
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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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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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