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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
Charles Kettering
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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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We work day after day, not to finish things but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.
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One fails forward toward success.
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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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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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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.
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And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.
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