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" I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in. "
Melinda Gates
Need
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Children
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" There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, 'I'm going to switch careers to do it,' or they are often not retained... because the salaries and the compensation aren't there to make it happen. "
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" But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along. "
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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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" Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh. "
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Macintosh
Makes
" My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education. "
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" We would be driving down the street in a place like Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, and started to see, my gosh, the only people that have shoes are men. Why does that woman have a baby in her belly and one on her back, and she's carrying a huge load of bananas? You start to ask these questions. "
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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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" 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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Falling
Wrong
" I learn in a different way. I learn experientially. "
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Different Way
Learn
" Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies. "
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Should
" There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true. "
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Love
Loss
Perception
" We started this mostly from an intellectual place. "
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Started
Mostly
Place
" After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners. "
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Good
Dating
Number
" 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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Africa
Men
Past
" You can't save kids just with vaccines. "
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Just
" All lives have an equal value. "
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Value
Equal
Lives
" We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us. "
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How
Careful
Be Careful
" I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.' "
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Born
Saying
Myself
" 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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Growing Up
Up
Think
" If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped. "
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Remember
You
Direction
" I'm wholehearted about whatever I do. "
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Whatever
About
" The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next. "
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Planet
Life
Foundation
" You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work. "
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" Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives. "
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World
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" We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing. "
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Going
Talk
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