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.
PRINCE CHARLESThe whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa – slightly off balance.
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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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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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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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I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
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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 sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
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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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A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.
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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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The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa – slightly off balance.
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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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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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There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
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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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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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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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Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
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Something as curious as the monarchy won’t survive unless you take account of people’s attitudes. After all, if people don’t want it, they won’t have it.
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Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
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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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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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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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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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Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.
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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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Conservation must become before recreation.
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