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.
AGA KHAN IVIt 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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In Islamic belief, knowledge is two-fold. There is that revealed through the Holy Prophet (s.a.s.) and that which man discovers by virtue of his own intellect.
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Canada has for many years been a beacon to the rest of the world for its commitment to pluralism and for its support for the multicultural richness and diversity of its peoples.
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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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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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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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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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God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
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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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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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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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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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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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Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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