We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
AGA KHAN IVThat is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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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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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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This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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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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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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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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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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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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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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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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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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God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
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