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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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One fails forward toward success.
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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 key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
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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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All human development, no matter what form it takes, must be outside the rules otherwise we would never have anything new.
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The price of progress is trouble.
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We work day after day, not to finish things but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
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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.
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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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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
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