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

-- Philip Emeagwali

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“If you want to kill me, despise me, hate me, and live in an unsightly way... Run, and cling to life, and then some day, when you have the same eyes as I do, come before me”
“Feminism is a word that I identify with. The term has become synonymous with vitriolic man-hating but it needs to come back to a place where both men and women can embrace it. It is particularly important for women in developing countries.”
“You canâ€™t talk mediocrity and expect to have victory. You are prophesying your future. If you want a shift to occur, youâ€™ve got to think positive.”
“I paint when I cannot photograph.”
“Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.”
“I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.”
“Books are never harmless...they either strengthen us or they weaken us in our faith. Some of them do this even as they entertain us, others as they teach us. In an invisible way their teaching penetrates into our hearts and souls, to continue its work inside, and we inhale the spirit of these books as healing or poisonous vapors. They can bring the greatest benefits and the greatest ruin, for from their ideas that they spread come the deeds of the future.”
“Liverpool Football Club is the heartland of football folklore”

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