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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.

Melinda Gates

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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Born Business Career Daughter Division Myself Ran
The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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Foundation Life Oneself Planet Value
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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Abortion Country Issues Law People Politics
Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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Affect Poverty Woman World
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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Believe Children Death Leadership Sick World
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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Fingers Improvement Information Money Resource World Yourself
If you can’t travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you’re making.
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Development Difference Help Learning Story Travel Woman World Yourself
After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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Date Decision Goodness Partner
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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Better Live Reality Solution Understand Woman
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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Affect Change Education Student Teacher Yourself
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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Boredom Children Education Stay Thinking Time Understand
I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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Different Experiment Learning Myself Way
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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Children Decision Family Food Health Herself Home Revolution Woman
Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.
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Country Myself Quality Woman World
If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It’s a man. Who’s left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.
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Care Chance City Development Goodness Home Job Man Move Woman Yourself
Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
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Children Different Sick Vaccine

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