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Best 80+ Melinda Gates Messages, Quotes, and Images
But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get for our kids.
Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.
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.
The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
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.
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.
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.
If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It's a man. Who's left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.
Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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The very purpose of life is to reach the highest possible flowering.
Two hallmarks of a healthy life are the abilities to love and to work. Each requires imagination.
“True character is doing the right thing even when no one is watching.”
Trust not a woman when she weeps, for it is her nature to weep when she wants her will.
Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men.