As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
MELINDA GATESWe 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?’
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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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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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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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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We set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that… sometimes every week.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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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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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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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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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 learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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