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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.
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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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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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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