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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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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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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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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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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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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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A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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The price of progress is trouble.
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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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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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One fails forward toward success.
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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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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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