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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.

From Melinda Gates

I'm wholehearted about whatever I do.

From Melinda Gates

The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

From Melinda Gates

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.

From Melinda Gates

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

From Melinda Gates

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.

From Melinda Gates