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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
Entrepreneur
Inventor
Derby
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Charles Franklin Kettering
Make
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Effort
Almost
Future
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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I could do nothing without my problems they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
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