"The Aga Khan Awards for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms. This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations."

-- Aga Khan IV

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“One current reaction to change in families, for example, is the proposal for more "education for parenthood," on the theory that this training will not only teach specific skills such as how to change diapers or how to play responsively with toddlers, but will raise parents' self-confidence at the same time. The proposed cure, in short, is to reform and educate the people with the problem.”
“Historically, women's voices were central to food narratives, yet they were marginalized, and what happened at the table, the kitchen, the garden, and the fields was silenced. I'm very interested in how food appears in the historical record and animates our understanding of the South. It provides texture both to the past and to our contemporary experience. My work is not about discovering new voices, but rather it encourages voices that have been silenced to come forward and speak a little louder.”
“In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.”
“A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God.”
“There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.”
“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
“Each temple building is an inspiration, magnificent and beautiful in every way, but the temple building alone does not bless. The endowed blessings and divine functionsâ€”come through obedience and faithfulness to priesthood authority and covenants made.”
“Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves.”

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