There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
AGA KHAN IVThe right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples’ cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.
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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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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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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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Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
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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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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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God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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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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he two worlds, Muslim and non-Muslim, Eastern and Western, must, as a matter of urgency, make a real effort to get to know one another, for I fear that what we have is not a clash of civilisations, but a clash of ignorance on both sides.
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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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