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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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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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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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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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If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.
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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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