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Kettering, Charles Franklin
US electrical engineer and inventor
invented self-starting automobile ignition system
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- "An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots."
- "You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere."
- "You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time."
- "My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."
- "Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."
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