You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
MELINDA GATESTake 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.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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It’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
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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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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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With economic opportunity, sometimes it’s making sure that if they’re not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.
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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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.
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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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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can’t get her to come and get them then they won’t work.
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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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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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