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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
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One fails forward toward success.
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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I don't want men of experience working for me. The experienced man is always telling me why something can't be done. The fellow who has not had any experience is so dumb he doesn't know a thing can't be done - and he goes ahead and does it.
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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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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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 time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
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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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I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
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