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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.

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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I could do nothing without my problems they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
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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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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 key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
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