As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
MELINDA GATESNow, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.
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It’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
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Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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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I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.
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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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If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
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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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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
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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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If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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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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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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