"Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need. 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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Source : Address at the Leadership and Diversity Conference, Gatineau, Canada, May 19, 2004.

Aga Khan IV

#Religious Quotes #Space Quotes #Groups Quotes

“The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.”
“My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.”
“When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.”
“The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.”

Source : Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.100, University of Chicago Press
“I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.”
“Some people seem to have extreme natural wiring - a talent that seems to come out of nowhere. Like a music savant or prodigy. The uplifting news, though, is that many talented people don't have such natural wiring - but they forge a talent through thousands of hours of what's known as deliberate practice or deliberate performance.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.”
“I'm a really bad liar.”

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