"The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity - these are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis."

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Source : "Cosmopolitan Society, Human Safety and Rights in Plural and Peaceful Societies". Remarks by His Highness the Aga Khan at Evora University Symposium, iis.ac.uk. February 12, 2006.

Aga Khan IV

#Struggle Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“Iran's strong logic and firm diplomacy is the guideline for all government officials in negotiations on country's peaceful nuclear program with foreigners, quite resolutely.”
“I think being self-taught is the only way of really learning things, because you have to question everybody. You don't simply absorb axioms or so-called truths like they are rules. You have to test them, and you need to reflect on them, to consider the effect they create. So, you have very significant opinions about things, because they come out from your own reflections.”
“I have come up the hard way.”
“Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through words.”
“I want to be where I'm wanted.”

Source : Source: www.sfgate.com
“I have to. I've been fighting it all night. I'm going to lose. My battle is as futile as a woman feeling the first pangs of labor and deciding it's an inconvenient time to give birth. Nature wins out. It always does.”
“As for breaking up, once the relationship is over, you never really know what went wrong; you just feel nauseous whenever the subject comes to mind. After a plane crash there's the black box that tells the FAA what caused the crack-up. Too bad there's no black box of relationships.”
“We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.”

Source : Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

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