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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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Charles Franklin Kettering
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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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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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