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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
Engineer
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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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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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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Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.
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