I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
MELINDA GATESAs a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
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Women are the centre of the family. It’s the woman who decides what’s eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children’s health revolves around her.
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We look in our own backyard and say, ‘How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?’
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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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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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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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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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 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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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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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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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