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.
PRINCE CHARLESFather told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!
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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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It seems to me self-evident that we cannot have capitalism without capital and, very importantly, that the ultimate source of all economic capital is Nature’s capital
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There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
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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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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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To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.
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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 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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We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.
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All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
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Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.
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Something as curious as the monarchy won’t survive unless you take account of people’s attitudes. After all, if people don’t want it, they won’t have it.
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I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.
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There is very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land.
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