If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.
PRINCE PHILIPWildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect.
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Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival.
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I have frequently been misrepresented. I don’t hate the press; I find a lot of it is very unpalatable.
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Wildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect.
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A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment.
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Tolerance is the one essential ingredient. You can take it from me that the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance.
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People think there’s a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.
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Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
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I’ve never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.
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We live in what virtually amounts to a museum – which does not happen to a lot of people.
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So who’s on drugs here? He looks as if he’s on drugs.
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It’s much better to go when you are still capable than wait until people say you’re so doddery it’s time you went.
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There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.
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When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.
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Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.
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Books are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their age.
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