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Prince Charles

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
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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Dependent Easy Ourselves Scare Sick
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
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 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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Average Build Frustration Office Remember Yourself
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
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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Advance Architecture Art Creation Technology
All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
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Existence Feeling Myself Time
There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
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Goodness People Start
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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Capital Economics Evidence Important
There is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstrips the necessary ethical considerations.
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Age Consider Doubt Live Necessary Terrify
I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
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Ability Believe God Passionate
Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can’t reach.
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Activity Paint Reach Soul Transportation
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.
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Change Climate Global Issues Myself Thinking Treat
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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Architect Curve Design Expression Feeling
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

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