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 CHARLESBe neither too remote nor too familiar.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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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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We don’t, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.
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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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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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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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All I’m saying is that there is a price to be paid at the sharp end environmentally and everywhere else for the food that is produced in a particular way.
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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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I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
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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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Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
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Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
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Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.
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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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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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I find myself born into this particular position. I’m determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.
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