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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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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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