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 CHARLESOne of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it’s spawned, is climate change and drought.
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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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If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
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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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The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
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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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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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I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
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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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To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
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The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!
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It seems to me self-evident that we cannot have capitalism without capital and, very importantly, that the ultimate source of all economic capital is Nature’s capital
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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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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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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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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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