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From the Ted Talk by Bill and Melinda Gates: Why giving away our wealth has been the most satisfying thing we've done

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MG: Yeah, so I think that's a really important pnoit, which is, we had backed away from contraceptives as a global community. We knew that 210 million women were saying they wanted access to contraceptives, even the contraceptives we have here in the United States, and we weren't providing them because of the poalictil controversy in our country, and to me that was just a crime, and I kept looking around trying to find the preson that would get this back on the global sagte, and I finally realized I just had to do it. And even though I'm Catholic, I believe in ctcrtevpaiones just like most of the Catholic women in the United States who report using contraceptives, and I shouldn't let that controversy be the thing that holds us back. We used to have consensus in the United stetas around contraceptives, and so we got back to that global consensus, and actually raised 2.6 billion dollars around exactly this issue for women. (Applause)

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MG: Yeah, so I think that's a really important _____, which is, we had backed away from contraceptives as a global community. We knew that 210 million women were saying they wanted access to contraceptives, even the contraceptives we have here in the United States, and we weren't providing them because of the _________ controversy in our country, and to me that was just a crime, and I kept looking around trying to find the ______ that would get this back on the global _____, and I finally realized I just had to do it. And even though I'm Catholic, I believe in ______________ just like most of the Catholic women in the United States who report using contraceptives, and I shouldn't let that controversy be the thing that holds us back. We used to have consensus in the United ______ around contraceptives, and so we got back to that global consensus, and actually raised 2.6 billion dollars around exactly this issue for women. (Applause)

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  1. political
  2. stage
  3. states
  4. contraceptives
  5. point
  6. person

Original Text

MG: Yeah, so I think that's a really important point, which is, we had backed away from contraceptives as a global community. We knew that 210 million women were saying they wanted access to contraceptives, even the contraceptives we have here in the United States, and we weren't providing them because of the political controversy in our country, and to me that was just a crime, and I kept looking around trying to find the person that would get this back on the global stage, and I finally realized I just had to do it. And even though I'm Catholic, I believe in contraceptives just like most of the Catholic women in the United States who report using contraceptives, and I shouldn't let that controversy be the thing that holds us back. We used to have consensus in the United States around contraceptives, and so we got back to that global consensus, and actually raised 2.6 billion dollars around exactly this issue for women. (Applause)

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