We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
MELINDA GATESKids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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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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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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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That’s universal – we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what’s not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.
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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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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.
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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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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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Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don’t get there by just pushing an outsider’s point of view.
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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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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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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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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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