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That’s universal – we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what’s not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.

Melinda Gates

You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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Fortunate Help Life Person Yourself
We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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Care Light Shine Spiritual
You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can’t get her to come and get them then they won’t work.
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Best Children Vaccine Woman Work Yourself
After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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Date Decision Goodness Partner
The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child’s health.
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Big Born Children Family Herself Live Pieces Planning Save Space Vaccine Woman Work
One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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Life Value Worth
Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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Believe Health Myself Problem Solution
It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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Believe Children Death Leadership Sick World
What great changes have not been ambitious?
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Ambition Change Greatness Inspirational Motivational
Women and girls face a whole host of issues. We start with health, so we work very deeply on maternal deaths, making sure that a mom doesn’t die in childbirth, making sure that she has access, for instance, to AIDS medication.
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Death Face Girl Health Issues Mother Start Woman
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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Change Family Help Look Ourselves Problem Risk
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.
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Business Computer Education Myself Production Science Work
When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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Growth Investment People Woman
Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
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Children Desire Force Goodness Ourselves Society World
A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
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Difficult Remark Search Strength Strong Voice Woman
We set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that… sometimes every week.
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Family Foundation Ourselves Time Work

That’s universal – we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what’s not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.

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That’s universal – we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what’s not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.

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