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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.

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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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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Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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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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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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Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
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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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The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.
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If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
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People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
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One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.
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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
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Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
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