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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.

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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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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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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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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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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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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