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.
MELINDA GATESIf you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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I think it’s very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they’re growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
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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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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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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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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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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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I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.
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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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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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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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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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