What great changes have not been ambitious?
MELINDA GATESThe 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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
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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.
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Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
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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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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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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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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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All lives have an equal value.
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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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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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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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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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