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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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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One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for.
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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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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
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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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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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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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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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It is easy to build a philosophy - it doesn't have to run
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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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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