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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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A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.
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Do not bring me your successes they weaken me. Bring me your problems they strengthen me.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
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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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We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.
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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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here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
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99 percent of success is built on failure.
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The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.
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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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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.
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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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Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional.
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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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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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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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