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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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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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A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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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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The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.
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