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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

Melinda Gates

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Melinda Gates
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 15
Businessperson
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Philanthropist
Dallas
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Melinda Ann French
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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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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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If you can't travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you're making.
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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
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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.
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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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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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One life is worth no more or less than any other
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Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.
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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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We started our foundation because we believe we have a real opportunity to help advance equity around the world, to help make sure that, no matter where a person is born, he or she has the chance to live a healthy, productive life.
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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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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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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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We set out what's going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we'll reassess that... sometimes every week.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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I am inspired by the women I meet everywhere I go. They have to work so hard just to make sure their families survive, but somehow they stay optimistic and do everything in their power to make the future better than the past.
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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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