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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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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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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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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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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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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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