Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.


Charles Kettering

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When you don't have an education, you have to use your brains
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You don't need any brains to listen to music.
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Don't think because you need to think.NO. Think because you have brains.
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When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brains.
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And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.
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And she was an idiot. Very nosy, but no brains, none at all. It’s not a good combination,
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains
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If you do not have brains you have legs.
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If you do not have brains you follow the same route twice.
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Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains
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Beauty you're born with, but brains you earn.
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I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.
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I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.
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Cudgel thy brains no more about it.
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I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.
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I not only use all the brains I have, but all that I can borrow.
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We should not only use the brains we have, but all that we can borrow
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All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse.
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With luck on your side, you can do without brains.
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The less material things you desire, the more freedom you’ll discover.
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A deaf and dumb in the mist of morons is a renowed talkative among brains.
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You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.
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I got more guts than brains, and that's my problem.
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Chess – the wrestling grounds of meditative brains.
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If you want people to believe you, appeal to their hearts not to their brains
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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.
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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.
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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.
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Long whiskers cannot take the place of brains
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He's the brawn, I'm the brains.
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The more you know, the less you need.
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The more you give, the less you need.
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The more you know, the less you need
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The more you know, the less you need.
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The forming of the material changed, but you still use the same material.
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I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
CHARLES LINDBERGH
I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
CHARLES V
One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to h...
CHARLES STANLEY
A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.
CHARLES STANLEY
A man can preach no better than he prays.
CHARLES STANLEY
An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the...
CHARLES STANLEY
The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, ...
CHARLES STANLEY
Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.
CHARLES STANLEY
In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might ...
CHARLES STANLEY
Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously tr...
CHARLES STANLEY
The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.
CHARLES STANLEY
One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. A...
CHARLES STANLEY
Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us ...
CHARLES STANLEY
Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how...
CHARLES STANLEY
What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.
CHARLES SPURGEON
You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working i...
CHARLES JENCKS
Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
RAY CHARLES
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a fami...
CHARLES EASTMAN
The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the g...
CHARLES STANLEY
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's natur...
CHARLES SPURGEON
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in...
CHARLES DICKENS
There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
PRINCE CHARLES
We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find t...
CHARLES STANLEY
I take big risks, but I'm not reckless about it.
LARRY CHARLES