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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.

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None of these situations are identical. You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another.
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Another Apply Country Identical Issue One Religious Set Take
Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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Creation God Greatest Knowledge Probably Purpose Religious
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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Avoid Big Building Cultural Development Economic Look Picture Single Social Syndrome Together Trying
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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Balance Barrier Contradiction Creation God Humanity Possible Provide Remember
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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Culture Different History Ignorance Indeed Interpretation Known Little Real Religious Two West World
The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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Concerned Flock Pope Spiritual Welfare
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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Community Generally Instructed Interpretation Leave Religious Wider World
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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Common Conflict Contribution Dissension Ethnic Failure Harmonious Increasing Man Religious Signifamnt Social World
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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Deprived Determination Improve Mean Motivation Poverty
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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Capacity Ethics Fortune God Good Individual Islamic Privileged Responsibility Society
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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Ethical Greed Long Money Nothing Object Own Social Value
My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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Amongst Art Book Gifted Grandfather Many Past Person Qualities
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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Art Concentration Deep Future Literary Past Read Thought Time Work
This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
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Bring Building Context Environment Future Generation Mean Quality Trying
Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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Agree Country Dire Experience Governance Need Religious Space Upon World
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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Belief Discover Fold Holy Humility Knowledge Man Prophet Religious Revealed Virtue

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