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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.

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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Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.
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The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.
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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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Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing.
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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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I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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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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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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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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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 can send a message around the world in one-fifth of a second, yet it may take years for it to get from the outside of a man's head to the inside.
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The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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