If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
MELINDA GATESIn different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.
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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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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.
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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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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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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.
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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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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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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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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.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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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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