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A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.

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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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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
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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Architecture Award Better Mean People Physical Place Seek Term Trying
They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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Composition Different Involved Population Religious Term
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
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
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 right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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Hope Human Motivation Powerful Right
Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
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Development Existence Longer Pluralism Progress Simply Vital
There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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Appear Degradation Misunderstanding Momentum Relation Towards
Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of civil society in recognizing and celebrating the diversity of the world’s peoples.
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Accident Continous Diversity Education Enlightened Government History Investment Pluralist Product Societies World
The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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Concerned Flock Pope Spiritual Welfare
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
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
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
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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Certain Developing Fear Hope Lesson Most Power Probably Replacement Single Trampoline Working

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