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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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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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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We work day after day, not to finish things but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
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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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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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One fails forward toward success.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
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