The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
AGA KHAN IVInnumerable 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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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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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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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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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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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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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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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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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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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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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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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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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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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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