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One life is worth no more or less than any other

Melinda Gates

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Melinda Gates
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 15
Businessperson
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Organizational Founder
Patron Of The Arts
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Dallas
Texas
Melinda Ann French
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Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men.
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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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I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
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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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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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Think, for a moment, about our educational ladder. We've strengthened the steps lifting students from elementary school to junior high, and those from junior high to high school. But, that critical step taking students from high school into adulthood is badly broken. And it can no longer support the weight it must bear.
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When I look at 225 million women who want contraceptives, and then I look at the 52 million unintended pregnancies that could be avoided by addressing this unmet need, where can we have the biggest impact with our voice, our dollars, our partners? It's on contraceptives. I would rather address the problem upstream.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.
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As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.
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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 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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Take 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.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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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?'
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Human-centered design. Meeting people where they are and really taking their needs and feedback into account. When you let people participate in the design process, you find that they often have ingenious ideas about what would really help them. And it’s not a onetime thing it’s an iterative process.
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My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.
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When girls are educated and free to pursue their passions, they contribute more to a thriving society. When women have a voice, they raise it to demand a life that is greater than what they've been told they have a right to expect. And these demands change the future for everyone.
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