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You can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
Entrepreneur
Inventor
Derby
Vermont
Charles Franklin Kettering
Men
Second
World
Inside
Fifth
Head
Send
Science
Message
Around
Messages
May
Habit
Take
Leadership
Years
Outside

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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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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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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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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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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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
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If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
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Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.
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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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