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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.
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 fails forward toward success.
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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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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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Industry prospers when it offers people articles which they want more than they want anything they now have. The fact is that people never buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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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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