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Philip Emeagwali

"During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life."

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"During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life."

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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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"Things past redress are now with me past care."

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"Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style."

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

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"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

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"Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger."
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"Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling."
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"I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me."
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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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"The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time."
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"The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig."
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"I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature."
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