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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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Charles Franklin Kettering
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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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Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
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And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.
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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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