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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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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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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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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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We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
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I've never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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