If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
PRINCE CHARLESWe don’t, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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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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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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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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The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!
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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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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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Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.
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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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If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don’t crush them with some clever remark straight away.
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Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can’t reach.
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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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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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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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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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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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