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In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.

Melinda Gates

You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
MELINDA GATES

Children Medicine Save Vaccine Yourself
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?’
MELINDA GATES

Change Family Help Look Ourselves Problem Risk
I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
MELINDA GATES

College Goal Goodness
Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
MELINDA GATES

Believe Health Myself Problem Solution
Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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Affect Poverty Woman World
One life is worth no more or less than any other.
MELINDA GATES

Life Value Worth
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
Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
MELINDA GATES

Change Force Strong Support Togetherness Woman
All lives have an equal value.
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Equality Live One Liner Value
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.
MELINDA GATES

Children Growth Important Myself Name Situation Thinking
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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Act Bad Business Design Education Failure Help Tragedy
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.
MELINDA GATES

Best Children Vaccine Woman Work Yourself
If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
MELINDA GATES

Economy Start Woman Yourself
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.
MELINDA GATES

Children Decision Family Food Health Herself Home Revolution Woman
We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
MELINDA GATES

Care Light Shine Spiritual
Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
MELINDA GATES

Children Desire Force Goodness Ourselves Society World

In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.

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In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.

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