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Prince Charles

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

Age Deep Generosity Greatness Myself Recover Thinking
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Conclusion Failure Human Ideal Jump Quick Suffering
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?
PRINCE CHARLES

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.
PRINCE CHARLES

End Evidence Goodness Land Leaving People
Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
PRINCE CHARLES

Eyes Father Myself
I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
PRINCE CHARLES

Ability Believe God Passionate
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Attitude Curious People Survive
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Change Climate Goodness Myself Start Thinking
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa – slightly off balance.
PRINCE CHARLES

Balance Celebration Impose Medicine
I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
PRINCE CHARLES

Cover Globe Myself Time
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Bed Day Fashion Myself Position Rose
We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.
PRINCE CHARLES

Change Climate Global Issues Myself Thinking Treat
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Consumer Demand Kind Organic Remark Result
The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
PRINCE CHARLES

Authority Easy People Power
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

Action Best Destruction Enthusiasm Ourselves Past
Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can’t reach.
PRINCE CHARLES

Activity Paint Reach Soul Transportation

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