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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.

Charles Kettering

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
Engineer
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Charles Franklin Kettering
Existence
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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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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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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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If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
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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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No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.
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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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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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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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Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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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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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 key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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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