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If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
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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