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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.

Melinda Gates

As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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Children Love Parents Responsible Vaccinate Yourself
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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Affective Believe Evidence Government Myself Place Start Work
You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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Children Medicine Save Vaccine Yourself
We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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Care Light Shine Spiritual
Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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Believe Stay True Trust Yourself
One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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Life Value Worth
Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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Born Determination Future Woman
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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Big Development Kill Problem Thinking World Yourself
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.
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Business Computer Education Myself Production Science Work
If you can’t travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you’re making.
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Development Difference Help Learning Story Travel Woman World Yourself
Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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Help Inspirational People Time Yourself
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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Family Foundation Ourselves Time Work
If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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Development Investment Woman Women Empowerment World Yourself
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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Believe Children Death Leadership Sick World
Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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Connection Deep Humanity Oneself
If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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Economy Start Woman Yourself

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