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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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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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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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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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It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.
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If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.
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Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
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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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