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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
Melinda GatesMelinda Gates Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
Melinda GatesMelinda Gates 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.
Melinda GatesMelinda Gates It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
Melinda GatesMelinda Gates Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it’s increasingly girls, not boys, who don’t know how to read.
Melinda GatesMelinda Gates All lives have an equal value.
Melinda GatesMelinda Gates Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don’t get there by just pushing an outsider’s point of view.
Melinda GatesMelinda Gates Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family’s well-being – as much as 10 times more.
Melinda GatesMelinda Gates If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
Melinda GatesMelinda Gates Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
Melinda GatesMelinda Gates When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
Melinda GatesMelinda Gates I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
Melinda GatesMelinda Gates When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
Melinda GatesMelinda Gates Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
Melinda GatesMelinda Gates The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don’t die of diarrhea anymore, but it’s a huge problem in the developing world.
Melinda GatesMelinda Gates Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
Melinda GatesMelinda Gates
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Nansia MovidiNansia Movidi Carry your heart through this world like a life-giving sun
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Ivanka TrumpIvanka Trump Your life within God’s arms, Your dance within God’s arms, Is already Perfect!
HafezHafez He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.
BoethiusBoethius God answers the mess of life with one word: Grace.
Max LucadoMax Lucado There’s only 5 real jobs in the world. Teacher, fireman, policeman, doctor and somebody who is in the armed service. If you don’t have one of those 5 jobs, you shouldn’t take your life that serious.
Charles BarkleyCharles Barkley Faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and He will get us through it.
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