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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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Organizational Founder
Patron Of The Arts
Philanthropist
Dallas
Texas
Melinda Ann French
Melinda French Gates
Melinda Ann Gates
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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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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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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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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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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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If you look back at history, [Dale ] Carnegie highlighted the need for libraries to be a place where everyone could go to read if you didn't have access to books. Philanthropy can be a place that'll take a risk or point to areas to make sure they are the right government investments to reduce inequalities.
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A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
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Despite the debunking, you have a small group in the last five years that hasn't wanted to vaccinate their children, for instance, for measles. Then, all of sudden, we got an outbreak of measles and kids were starting to die from measles.
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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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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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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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