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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.

Melinda Gates

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.
MELINDA GATES

Business Computer Education Myself Production Science Work
We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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Care Light Shine Spiritual
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
One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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Life Value Worth
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
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
Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it’s increasingly girls, not boys, who don’t know how to read.
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Education Home Reading Woman
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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College Goal Goodness
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
If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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Children Growth Potential Woman
Women and girls face a whole host of issues. We start with health, so we work very deeply on maternal deaths, making sure that a mom doesn’t die in childbirth, making sure that she has access, for instance, to AIDS medication.
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Death Face Girl Health Issues Mother Start Woman
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
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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Change Family Help Look Ourselves Problem Risk
Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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Planning Pregnant Tools Woman World
My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn’t realize it was at the peak at the time.
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Economics Population Science Time Woman Work
I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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Different Experiment Learning Myself Way

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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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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