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.
PRINCE CHARLESI was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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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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If you think about your and my grandchildren, this is what really worries me. I don’t want them – if I’m still alive by then – to say, ‘Why didn’t you do something about it?’, when you could have done.
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Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.
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It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.
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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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Any difficulties which the world faces today will be as nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the world-wide economy.
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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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As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.
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Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can’t reach.
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Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
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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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Your greatest achievement is to love me.
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If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
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It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything – until, that is, it comes to climate science.
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If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos.
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