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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
Entrepreneur
Inventor
Derby
Vermont
Charles Franklin Kettering
Men
Achievement
Willed
Touch
Arose
Built
Skies
Unless
Dreamed
Inspirational
Aviation
Ever
Flight
Nothing
Believed
Must
Sky

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