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Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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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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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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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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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God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
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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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Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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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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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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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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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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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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