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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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Women are not automatically second-class citizens because they live in Islamic countries. We cannot judge the position of women in Islam aright if we take the most conservative Islamic states as representative of the whole.
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We would never comment on private correspondence.
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As long as I do not take myself too seriously, I should not be too badly off.
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Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
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Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.
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Perhaps it has been too uncomfortable for those with vested interests to acknowledge, but 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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That's called a microphone. It's a big sausage that picks up everything you say - and you're starting early.
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I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
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I'd rather go by bus.
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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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In the U.K. we have the best geography teachers in the world.
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The medieval Islamic world, from Central Asia to the shores of the Atlantic, was a world where scholars and men of learning flourished. But because we have tended to see Islam as the enemy of the West, as an alien culture, society, and system of belief, we have tended to ignore or erase its great relevance to our own history.
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We need to be realistic. There is very little we can do now to stop the ice from disappearing from the North Pole in the summer. And we probably cannot prevent the melting of the permafrost and the resulting release of methane. In addition, I fear that we may be too late to help the oceans maintain their ability to absorb carbon dioxide.
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It's always nice to have somebody on your side.
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Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.
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The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.
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The mistake is to think that clever technology can solve everything, but it can't solve our relationship with nature, which is where I think it's gone wrong in that we have somehow abandoned our proper connection with nature.
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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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On an increasingly crowded planet, humanity faces many threats - but none is greater than climate change. It magnifies every hazard and tension of our existence.
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You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
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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.
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There is an old show business saying which warns never to work with animals or children, but nobody prepared me for Molly Meldrum.
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Your greatest achievement is to love me.