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" K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things. "
Bill Gates
Parents
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" If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently? "
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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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" I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing. "
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" Our teachers deserve better feedback. "
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" By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer. "
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" The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing. "
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" Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome. "
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North Korea
Welcome
" I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth. "
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Some
Depth
" There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive. "
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" You're never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour. "
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Magic
" 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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" Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral. "
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Generation
Used
" People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change. "
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Difficult
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" I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English. "
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Five
Language
" The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive. "
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People
Support
Impressive
" I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know. "
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Believe
Think
God
" Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education. "
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Education
Unemployment
College
" I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me. "
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Me
Never
Farmer
" Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear. "
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Weather
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" By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education. "
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Education
People
School
" With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents. "
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Gain
Windows
Trying
" You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil. "
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Rigid
You
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" When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section in - if they could, they would do so. "
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Go
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" The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster. "
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History
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" Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career. "
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Career
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" In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil. "
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" Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs. "
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" Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions. "
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" Certainly, the Windows share of servers is strong. "
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Certainly
Windows