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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.
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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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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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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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.
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Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.
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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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