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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.
Charles Kettering
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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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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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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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I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
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