The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
MELINDA GATESI 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.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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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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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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When we better understand the realities of these women’s lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
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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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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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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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Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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All lives have an equal value.
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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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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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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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