"If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress."

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Source : Aga Khan IV's address to the Tutzing Evangelical Academy Upon Receiving the "Tolerance" Award in Tutzing, Germany, May 20, 2006.

Aga Khan IV

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“I just take every day is a miracle and I'm really glad that I'm still working and that people are not sick of me, even though even I'm sick of me a little bit.”
“Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.”
“I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.”
“I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time.”
“Habit: Often mistaken for love.”
“Some dancers dream about successful careers...and some dancers wake up and do the hard work that's necessary to achieve them.”

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