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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.

Prince Charles

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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Action Best Destruction Enthusiasm Ourselves Past
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
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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Difficult Economy Face Warm World
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
I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.
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Learning Myself Parents
Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.
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Big Challenge Change Climate Face Greatness
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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Forest Nature Planet System
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
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 sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
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Cover Globe Myself Time
This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the moment passing like an electric current through the brush in my hand.
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Beautiful Hands Occasion Ourselves Special
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.
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Himself Humility Measurement Puzzle Right Thinking
Why can’t we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles – and functional?
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Architect Curve Design Expression Feeling
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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End Evidence Goodness Land Leaving People
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
The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
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Authority Easy People Power

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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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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