Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
MELINDA GATESNow we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.
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If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It’s a man. Who’s left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.
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All lives have an equal value.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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We look in our own backyard and say, ‘How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?’
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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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If you can’t travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you’re making.
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My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn’t realize it was at the peak at the time.
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