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 GATESAbortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can’t even yet agree on what their laws should be.
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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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All lives have an equal value.
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If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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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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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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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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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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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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I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
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Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can’t even yet agree on what their laws should be.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
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The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child’s health.
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