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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
Engineer
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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