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What great changes have not been ambitious?

Melinda Gates

Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family’s well-being – as much as 10 times more.
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Different Family Investment Man Time Woman
I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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Different Experiment Learning Myself Way
Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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Help Medicine Need Protection Woman Work
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
Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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Help Inspirational People Time Yourself
The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child’s health.
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Big Born Children Family Herself Live Pieces Planning Save Space Vaccine Woman Work
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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Act Bad Business Design Education Failure Help Tragedy
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
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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Affective Believe Evidence Government Myself Place Start Work
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
If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I’m counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don’t have access to the contraceptives they need?
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Believe Equality Myself Need Service Value Woman
You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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Fortunate Help Life Person Yourself
I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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Care Live Mom Myself Save
Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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Connection Deep Humanity Oneself
We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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Care Light Shine Spiritual
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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Children Growth Important Myself Name Situation Thinking

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