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We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.

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Prince Charles
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: November 14
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To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
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When people are uncertain about what is right and what is wrong, and anxious about being considered old-fashioned, it seems to be worse than folly that Christians are still arguing about doctrinal matters which can only bring needless distress to a number of people.
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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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Boy, the things I do for England.
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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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Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
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