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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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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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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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We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.
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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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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
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Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
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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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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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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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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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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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.
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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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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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You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.
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