That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it.
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To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.Clyde Tombaugh
You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem.
Clyde Tombaugh
I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises.
Clyde Tombaugh
Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.
Clyde Tombaugh
I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?
Clyde Tombaugh
We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation.
Clyde Tombaugh
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