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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.

Melinda Gates

In 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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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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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Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can’t even yet agree on what their laws should be.
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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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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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The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child’s health.
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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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Philanthropy is not about the money. It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
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Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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Deep human connection is … the purpose and the result of a meaningful life – and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.
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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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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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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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