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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run

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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
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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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If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.
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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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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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Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
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I could do nothing without my problems they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
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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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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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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 key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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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Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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