The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
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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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Briefly, to program it requires an absolute understanding of how all 65,536 processors are interconnected.
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Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.
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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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My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.
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Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources.
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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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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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