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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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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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Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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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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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You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.
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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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I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
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