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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.

Prince Charles

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
Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.
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Creation Earth Society Success
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
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
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
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.
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Alive Economy Element Myself Project Rains Tree Worth
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
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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Angel Doubt God Heaven Service Talk
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
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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Age Deep Generosity Greatness Myself Recover Thinking
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
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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Approval Design Development Feeling Home
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
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
I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
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Cover Globe Myself Time
All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
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Existence Feeling Myself Time
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.
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Expectation Fools Imagination Myself
Your greatest achievement is to love me.
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Achievement Love Myself Pride Relationship
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
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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Bed Day Fashion Myself Position Rose
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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Born Brother Ourselves Religion Sister
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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Conclusion Failure Human Ideal Jump Quick Suffering
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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Attitude Curious People Survive
I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
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Ability Believe God Passionate
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
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
Conservation must become before recreation.
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Conservation Recreation

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