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"The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong."
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"Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord."
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"Poverty is a force that pulls down the head of the people."
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"Hardship makes the world obscure."
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"There is nothing quite as unpleasant as wearing a pair of briefs which have been trailed through a Calcutta courtyard. Nothing, that is, except having one's elbows and knees lacerated by unseen slivers of glass and discarded razor blades."
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"By three in the afternoon, after one Bintang too many, I was absolutely smashed and feared that trying to stand may end badly."
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"Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice."
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"Few great things are achieved effortlessly."
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"Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or-and the outward semblance is the same-crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more."
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"The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow."
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"However, with a gut full of heroin, it's hard to be an optimist."
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"It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels."
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"The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and finding the cure or an effective vaccine for AIDS."
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"One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations."
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"First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it."
Nature

"Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions."
Computer

"My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems."
Nature

"Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted."
Computer

"Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources."
People

"When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments."
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"I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17."
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