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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.

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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.
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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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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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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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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.
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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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The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.
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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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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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