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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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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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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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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
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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 think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
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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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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
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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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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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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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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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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We work day after day, not to finish things but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
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