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Prince Charles, a member of the British royal family, was born on November 14, 1948. He is the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and the future King of England. He is active in public life, involved in charity, arts, environmental protection, and other fields.

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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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“Personally, I have been very impressed by the slow food movement. It is about celebrating the culture of food, of sharing the extraordinary knowledge, developed over millennia, of the traditions involved with quality food production, of the sheer joy and pleasure of consuming food together. Especially within the context of family life, this has to be one of the highest forms of cultural activity.”

“The demand for organic food is growing at a remarkable rate. Consumers have made it clear that they want organic produce and every sector of the food chain is responding, with the kind of results we have just seen.”

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“Grandparenthood is a unique moment in anyone's life, as countless kind people have told me in recent months, so I am enormously proud and happy to be a grandfather for the first time and we are eagerly looking forward to seeing the baby in the near future.”

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“Your greatest achievement is to love me.”

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“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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“What I have been trying to remind people of for the past 40 years is that you can’t operate an entire conventional system, whether it’s economics, business or the way we live and surround ourselves, what we eat, without recognizing that there are severe negative externalities that are not being accounted for.”

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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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“It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything - until, that is, it comes to climate science.”

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“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.”

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“The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!”

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“Boy, the things I do for England.”

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“If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.”

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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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“I think we'd be very foolish to expect that we can just import everything from somewhere else and imagine that that's going to last for ever and ever and ever”

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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“Be neither too remote nor too familiar.”

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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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“I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.”

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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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