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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
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Charles Franklin Kettering
Never
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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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 are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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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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