"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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Source : Speech on Democratic Development, Pluralism and Civil Society delivered at the Nobel Institute, Oslo, Norway, www.akdn.org. April 07, 2005.

Aga Khan IV

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“Americans like to give their President the benefit of the doubt. If you look at the poll numbers, people knew Nixon was deeply involved in Watergate and stayed with him for a long time. It's a natural tendency.”

Source : Source: progressive.org
“As Latinas, we tend to be overly partial considering stereotypes. I'm interested in being naughty and edgy.”
“The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.”
“What man condemns in others, he attracts to himself.”

Source : Florence Scovel Shinn (2009). “The Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.46, Penguin
“In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.”
“For nine miles along a submerged ridge, the corals rise in lumpy hillocks that spread out 100 yards or more, resembling heaped scoops of rainbow sherbet and Neapolitan ice cream. The mounds, some 100 feet tall, sprout delicate treelike gorgonians that sift currents for a plankton meal. Fish, worms and other creatures dart or crawl in every crevice. This description could apply to thousands of coral reefs in shallow, sun-streaked tropical waters from Australia to the Bahamas. But this is the Sula Ridge, 1,000 feet down in frigid darkness on the continental shelf 100 miles off Norway's coast.”
“He's never fought with religion; what is the point of railing against such beauty, such intimate theatre, such chime of eternity? He can treasure it without believing in it.”

Source : Ian McDonald (2010). “The Dervish House”, p.160, Hachette UK
“I think the past is something I have spent a lot of time thinking about, not only what is different about the past but what's the same, and what links us to the past.”

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