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Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
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
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
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I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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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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One fails forward toward success.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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