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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 appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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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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Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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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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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
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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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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