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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.

Melinda Gates

Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
MELINDA GATES

Children Medicine Miracle Vaccine
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.
MELINDA GATES

Care Chance City Development Goodness Home Job Man Move Woman Yourself
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 GATES

Big Development Kill Problem Thinking World Yourself
Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
MELINDA GATES

Connection Deep Humanity Oneself
We [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we’d invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I’ve probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times.
MELINDA GATES

Decision Foundation Investment Myself Start Time Travel
As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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Children Love Parents Responsible Vaccinate Yourself
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
If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
MELINDA GATES

Children Growth Potential Woman
Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
MELINDA GATES

Believe Stay True Trust Yourself
When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
MELINDA GATES

Development Global Investment Powerful Woman Yourself
Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
MELINDA GATES

Financial Help People Strategy
I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
MELINDA GATES

College Goal Goodness
We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
MELINDA GATES

Care Light Shine Spiritual
If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
MELINDA GATES

Affect Change Education Student Teacher Yourself
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.
MELINDA GATES

Affective Believe Evidence Government Myself Place Start Work
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.
MELINDA GATES

Creation Deserve Fight Future Learning Live Play Time Woman World

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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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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