Charles Kettering Quotes
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.
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What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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Since Mashable's inception, some of our most popular articles have focused on the science behind the world's coolest innovations.
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the 'we' rather than the 'I.'
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We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.
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People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.
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I'm a little skeptical of foreign coaches in our league and in U.S. Soccer just because of how different our league is and our players are than other players around the world.
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There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.
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I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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The history of Israel-Palestine conflict cannot be understood without its underlying emotional meanders. The emotional frameworks of the loss of Palestine for the Arab-Islamic world touched deep scars that go back to the Crusades, symbolizing a proof of Arab-Islamic decay, political impotence, and perceived (British/French) betrayal and antagonism.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.
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Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
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Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude.
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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
