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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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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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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The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
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Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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