“The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.”

— Aga Khan IV

Baccalaureate Address at Brown University Delivered by His Highness the Aga Khan, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America (26 May 1996) http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/1995-96/95-147t.html

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49th and current Imam of Nizari Ismailism 1936

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