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The price of progress is trouble.

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
Entrepreneur
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Derby
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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Progress
Trouble

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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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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
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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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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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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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