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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.
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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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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One fails forward toward success.
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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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