"The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority."
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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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"The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!"
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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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"Be neither too remote nor too familiar."
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"I find myself born into this particular position. I'm determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them."
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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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"Some recent occurrences such as the BSE disaster and even perhaps - dare I mention it - the present severe weather conditions in our country are, I have no doubt, the consequences of mankind's arrogant disregard of the delicate balance of nature. We have to find a way of ensuring that our remarkable and seemingly beneficial advances in technology do not just become the agents of our own destruction."
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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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"Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach."
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"I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated."
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"Your greatest achievement is to love me."
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"The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution - moving from hunter-gathering to farming - and the Industrial Revolution"
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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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"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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"If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them."
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"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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"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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"I think we're going to find, with climate change and everything else, things like global warming and goodness knows what else and the cost of fuel for a start, that things are going to become very complicated."
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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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