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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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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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Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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