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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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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.
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The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
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