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 CHARLESIf 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.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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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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The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
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If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
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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 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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Conservation must become before recreation.
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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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I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.
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Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.
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The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!
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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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Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can’t reach.
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There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
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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 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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