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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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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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My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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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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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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