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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.

Prince Charles

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
PRINCE CHARLES

Existence Feeling Myself Time
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Complete Man Teaching
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Action Best Destruction Enthusiasm Ourselves Past
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Expectation Fools Imagination Myself
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Himself Humility Measurement Puzzle Right Thinking
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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Age Consider Doubt Live Necessary Terrify
I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.
PRINCE CHARLES

Learning Myself Parents
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Build Offend Ourselves Replacement Yourself
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
PRINCE CHARLES

Capital Economics Evidence Important
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Age Deep Generosity Greatness Myself Recover Thinking
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Alive Economy Element Myself Project Rains Tree Worth
We don’t, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.
PRINCE CHARLES

Children Hands World
The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
PRINCE CHARLES

Authority Easy People Power
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Difficult Economy Face Warm World
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Better Born Determination Help Hope Myself Position
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Climate Science Technology Trust World

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