A jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce – like a basketball team standing shoulder to shoulder between you and the Mona Lisa.
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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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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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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If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
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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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All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
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I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.
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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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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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The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa – slightly off balance.
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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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Conservation must become before recreation.
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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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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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I think we’d be very foolish to expect that we can just import everything from somewhere else and imagine that that’s going to last for ever and ever and ever.
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Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.
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Forests are the world’s air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.
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We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.
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I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
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The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!
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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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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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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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Your greatest achievement is to love me.
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I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.
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Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
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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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