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Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
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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Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
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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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