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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

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

Accident Continous Diversity Education Enlightened Government History Investment Pluralist Product Societies World
Unless these unfortunates can be touched with the spark which ignites the spirit of individual enterprise and determination, they will only sink back into renewed apathy, degradation and despair. It is for us, who are more fortunate, to provide that spark.
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Apathy Degradation Determination Enterprise Ignite Individual Renewed Spark Spirit Touch Touched Unfortunate
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
Nor do these two involve any contradiction, provided man remembers that his own mind is itself the creation of God. Without this humility, no balance is possible. With it, there are no barriers.
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Balance Barrier Contradiction Creation God Humanity Possible Provide Remember
If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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Animosities Born Confident Fear Generosity Generously Hope Powerful Progress
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
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
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
The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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Concerned Flock Pope Spiritual Welfare
A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.
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Communities Community Confident Depth Educated Identity Neighbour Pluralistic Require Society Tradition
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 right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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Hope Human Motivation Powerful Right
That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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Amazing Asset Canada Global Human Something Unique
Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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Agree Country Dire Experience Governance Need Religious Space Upon World
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
There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one’s own greed.
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Ethical Greed Long Money Nothing Object Own Social Value

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.

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