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Bill and Melinda Gates Deliver 2014 Commencement Speech at Stanford
NBC Bay Area ^ | Sunday, Jun 15, 2014 | Riya Bhattacharjee

Posted on 06/15/2014 2:24:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Silicon Valley got a dose of tech star power when Bill and Melinda Gates arrived at Stanford Sunday to deliver the 2014 commencement speech.

The couple are the founders and co-chairs of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest private foundation.

"Sharing a mutual commitment to a better world, Bill and Melinda Gates have taken on some of the planet's toughest challenges. This boldness is an ethos that we also embody at Stanford, and one we seek to instill in our graduates ... " Stanford president John Hennessy said.

Condoleezza Rice Backs Out of Rutgers Commencement Amid Protests Melinda Gates tweeted out a picture of her own graduation from Duke University Thursday, saying: "Thinking about my graduation from Duke as @BillGates and I prep for #Stanford14 commencement this weekend. #TBT"

On Sunday, she tweeted pictures of herself and Bill Gates getting ready for the commencement ceremony.

Apple's late founder Steve Jobs delivered the commencement address at Stanford in 2005, giving students the now famous words of advice: "stay hungry, stay foolish."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: gates; microsoft; stanford

1 posted on 06/15/2014 2:24:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Melinda no likey abortion anymore, she says...


2 posted on 06/15/2014 2:28:58 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Mamzelle

Yeah, sure.


3 posted on 06/15/2014 3:37:34 PM PDT by Tax-chick (I have a classic sports car.)
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To: nickcarraway
Wonderful sentiments, but destructive prescriptions. The delusions of liberal narrative superimposed upon the observations of human experience.

Gates extolls the power to coerce "good deeds," founded upon those dysfunctional liberal prescriptions, channeled via the coercive brainwashing of mass education.

Unionize "sex workers" Melinda, really? You think that is an answer to HIV? What was so wrong with morality centered upon the family? Oh, that's the source of that "stigma" you find so troubling. Yet without families, who raises that next generation? Government? Microsoft?

Hypocrisy, arrogance, fear, the greed to control, all conflated and pitched as optimism and empathy.

4 posted on 06/16/2014 9:56:20 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (ObamaCare IS Medicaid: They'll pull a sheet over your head and send you the bill.)
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To: Mamzelle

They’re more into outright sterilization these days. Pregnant women might change their mind about killing their baby. Best they never get pregnant at all...


5 posted on 06/16/2014 9:58:12 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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