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" I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act. "
Bill Gates
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" I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes. "
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" The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it. "
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" If you're a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you'll never have heard of Bill Gates. "
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" It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants. "
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" Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do. "
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" I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth. "
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" I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book. "
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" Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well. "
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" OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known. "
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" The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic. "
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" Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about. "
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" If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago? "
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" Certainly, the Windows share of servers is strong. "
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Windows
" I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on. "
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Children
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" I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it. "
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People
Some People
" Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible. "
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" One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected? "
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" I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested. "
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" The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?' "
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Time
You
" Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit; your machine can be taken over totally. "
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Day
Machine
" Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles. "
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" If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. "
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" In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam. "
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" We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve. "
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" Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. "
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" I've always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that. "
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" When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen. "
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" My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people. "
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" India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot. "
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