As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
MELINDA GATESWe have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
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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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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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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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If you can’t travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you’re making.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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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.
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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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All lives have an equal value.
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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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The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don’t die of diarrhea anymore, but it’s a huge problem in the developing world.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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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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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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