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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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The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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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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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.
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The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
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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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It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
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One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.
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Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
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We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules otherwise we would never have anything new.
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