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.
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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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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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
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Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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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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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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We [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we’d invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I’ve probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times.
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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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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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We set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that… sometimes every week.
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