You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
MELINDA GATESOne life is worth no more or less than any other.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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All lives have an equal value.
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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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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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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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Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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Government funding that’s coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It’s really palpable – it’s making a huge difference saving lives.
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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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With economic opportunity, sometimes it’s making sure that if they’re not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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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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Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
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I think it’s very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they’re growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That’s the place that governments often don’t want to, or can’t, work.
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