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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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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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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Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
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The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
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If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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