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We find that in research a certain amount of intelligent ignorance is essential to progress; for, if you know too much, you won't try the thing.

— Charles 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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The key to economic prosperity is the organized creation of dissatisfaction.

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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.

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Logic is a way of going wrong systematically.

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