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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
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Philanthropist
Dallas
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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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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We have to look at it country by country. In places like the developing world where, as you say, in Mumbai, it's about five hours' gap between what a woman does and a man does. You have to start by recognizing the problem and talking about it, trying to change those roles.
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Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family's well-being - as much as 10 times more.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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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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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.
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In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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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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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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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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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born.
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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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If you can't go to secondary school, the boys get to go and the girls don't, you're locked into a cycle of poverty, because you don't have a chance.
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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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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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