Famous quote by Clyde Tombaugh

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"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

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This quote is written / told by Clyde Tombaugh between February 4, 1906 and January 17, 1997. He/she was a famous Scientist from USA. The author also have 26 other quotes.

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