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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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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Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
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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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We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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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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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I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
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Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.
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