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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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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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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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This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
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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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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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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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Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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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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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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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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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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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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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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