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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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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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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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