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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.

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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