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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.

Prince Charles

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa – slightly off balance.
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Balance Celebration Impose Medicine
We don’t, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.
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Children Hands World
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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Advance Architecture Art Creation Technology
I think we’re going to find, with climate change and everything else, things like global warming and goodness knows what else and the cost of fuel for a start, that things are going to become very complicated.
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Change Climate Goodness Myself Start Thinking
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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Appearance Calculation Cheap Food Myself
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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Average Build Frustration Office Remember Yourself
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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Better Born Determination Help Hope Myself Position
To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
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Best Farm Result Talk
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
Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
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Expectation History Myself Relationship Serious Yourself
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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Change Climate Conflict Reason Terrorism
I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.
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Dimension Evaporation Time World
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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Grandchildren Thinking Worry Yourself
I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
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Cover Globe Myself Time
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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Consumer Demand Kind Organic Remark Result
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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Children Clever Society Straight

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