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Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of civil society in recognizing and celebrating the diversity of the world’s peoples.

Aga Khan IV

This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
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Bring Building Context Environment Future Generation Mean Quality Trying
Innumerable people since his death have told me how he used to read in the future, and this certainly was one of his very great strengths.
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Death Future Great Immnmerable Read Since Strength
One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.
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Certain Developing Fear Hope Lesson Most Power Probably Replacement Single Trampoline Working
While the past was a book he had read and re-read may times, the future was just one more literary work of art into which he used to pour himself with deep thought and concentration.
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Art Concentration Deep Future Literary Past Read Thought Time Work
Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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Creation God Greatest Knowledge Probably Purpose Religious
A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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Better Bridge Future Home Hunger Poverty Proper Provide
The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity.
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Equality Justice Opportunity Security Struggle Thinking
The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West.
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Culture Different History Ignorance Indeed Interpretation Known Little Real Religious Two West World
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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Architecture Award Better Mean People Physical Place Seek Term Trying
We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn’t work. You have to do it all together.
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Avoid Big Building Cultural Development Economic Look Picture Single Social Syndrome Together Trying
Indeed, one strength of Islam has always lain in its belief that creation is not static but continuous, that through scientific and other endeavours.
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Continous Creation Endeavor Lain Marvel Open Scientific Strength Window
Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples’ cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.
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Culture Faith Openness Social Structure Survival Tolerance Understanding Value
The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.
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Capacity Ethics Fortune God Good Individual Islamic Privileged Responsibility Society
Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
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Development Existence Longer Pluralism Progress Simply Vital
There are many interpretations of Islam within the wider Islamic community, but generally we are instructed to leave the world a better place than it was when we came into it.
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Community Generally Instructed Interpretation Leave Religious Wider World
The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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Concerned Flock Pope Spiritual Welfare

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