I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.
PRINCE CHARLESIf your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don’t crush them with some clever remark straight away.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
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A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.
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The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
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Conservation must become before recreation.
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Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.
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This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the moment passing like an electric current through the brush in my hand.
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As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period.
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We don’t, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.
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If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don’t crush them with some clever remark straight away.
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You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
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Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.
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I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
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Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ.
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Why can’t we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles – and functional?
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There is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstrips the necessary ethical considerations.
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