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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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