The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
AGA KHAN IVCanada has for many years been a beacon to the rest of the world for its commitment to pluralism and for its support for the multicultural richness and diversity of its peoples.
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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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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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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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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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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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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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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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Canada has for many years been a beacon to the rest of the world for its commitment to pluralism and for its support for the multicultural richness and diversity of its 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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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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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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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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