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.
AGA KHAN IVThere 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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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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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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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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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity.
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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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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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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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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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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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