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This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.

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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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It is a world of increasing dissension and conflict in which a significant contribution is the failure of different ethnic, tribal, religious, or social groups to search for, and agree upon, a common space for harmonious co-existence.
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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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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
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There are those… who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot.
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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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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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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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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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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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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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