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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules otherwise we would never have anything new.
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My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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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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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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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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It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
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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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Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.
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