It’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
MELINDA GATESConnect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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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A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don’t get there by just pushing an outsider’s point of view.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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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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