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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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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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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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 has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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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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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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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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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 cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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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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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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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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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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