Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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.
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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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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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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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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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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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I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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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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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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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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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can’t even yet agree on what their laws should be.
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I 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.
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