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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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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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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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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Indeed, one strength of Islam has always lain in its belief that creation is not static but continuous, that through scientific and other endeavours.
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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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God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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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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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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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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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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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 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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