Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
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We're all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can.
Interpretation
We must take action to eliminate polio while we have the opportunity.
Bill Gates emphasizes the collective responsibility to eradicate polio, highlighting the urgency and capability we all possess to contribute to a healthier world. His call to action is both a reminder of our role in global health and a challenge to mobilize efforts before it's too late.
In practice
In a speech about global health initiatives, one might reference this quote to inspire action.
Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting effective teaching in every classroom, charting a path to college and careers for all students, and developing the tools to help all children stay motivated and engaged in their own education. The more states that adopt these college and career based standards, the closer we will be to sharing innovation across state borders and becoming more competitive as a country.
About three million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
Internet TV and the move to the digital approach is quite revolutionary. TV has historically has been a broadcast medium with everybody picking from a very finite number of channels.
These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research, and providing incentives for private-sector R&D - should in my view be top priorities as Congress and the Administration consider how to maintain the nation's leadership in science, technology, and innovation.
It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.
It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation. The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.
Prevention is better than cure.
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.
Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
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