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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

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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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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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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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You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can’t get her to come and get them then they won’t work.
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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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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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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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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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With economic opportunity, sometimes it’s making sure that if they’re not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.
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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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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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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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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We [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we’d invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I’ve probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times.
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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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