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"We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation."
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"I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky."
"I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course."
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"It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck."
"Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did."
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