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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.
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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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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 sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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