Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
PRINCE CHARLESThere 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.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
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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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One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it’s spawned, is climate change and drought.
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All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
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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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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.
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I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.
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To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
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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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If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
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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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Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.
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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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The demand for organic food is growing at a remarkable rate. Consumers have made it clear that they want organic produce and every sector of the food chain is responding, with the kind of results we have just seen.
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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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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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Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
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I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.
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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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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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My Rainforests Project has three main elements. Firstly, to determine how much funding the rainforest countries need to re-orientate their economies so that the trees are worth more alive than dead.
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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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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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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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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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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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