The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
AGA KHAN IVThat is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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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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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Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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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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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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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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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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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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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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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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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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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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