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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.
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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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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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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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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I could do nothing without my problems they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.
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We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things there is no downcurve in science.
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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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