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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
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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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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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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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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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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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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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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 man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
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I've 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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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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here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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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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