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We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.
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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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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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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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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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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If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
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