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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.

Melinda Gates

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
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.
MELINDA GATES

Big Development Kill Problem Thinking World Yourself
If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
MELINDA GATES

Affect Change Education Student Teacher Yourself
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.
MELINDA GATES

Better Live Reality Solution Understand Woman
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

Different Family Place Planning Time Vaccine
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
Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
MELINDA GATES

Believe Stay True Trust Yourself
If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I’m counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don’t have access to the contraceptives they need?
MELINDA GATES

Believe Equality Myself Need Service Value Woman
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.
MELINDA GATES

Affective Believe Evidence Government Myself Place Start Work
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.
MELINDA GATES

Country Myself Quality Woman World
Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
MELINDA GATES

Believe Health Myself Problem Solution
Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
MELINDA GATES

Connection Deep Humanity Oneself
We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
MELINDA GATES

Care Light Shine Spiritual
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.
MELINDA GATES

Change Cultural Open People Point Social View 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
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.
MELINDA GATES

Act Bad Business Design Education Failure Help Tragedy

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