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I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.

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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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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If I want to stop a research program I can always do it by getting a few experts to sit in on the subject, because they know right away that it was a fool thing to try in the first place.
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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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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
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