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" I think I can safely say that, as adolescents, most people have excess energy to spare and need adventure, excitement, and a challenge. "

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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. "

" It's always nice to have somebody on your side. "

" Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes. "

" Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ. "

" 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. "

" I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents. "

" There is an old show business saying which warns never to work with animals or children, but nobody prepared me for Molly Meldrum. "

" Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress? "

" 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. "

" As long as I do not take myself too seriously, I should not be too badly off. "

" We would never comment on private correspondence. "

" Extremism is no more the monopoly of Islam than it is the monopoly of other religions, including Christianity. "

" The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance. "

" 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. "

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

" The whole of the 20th century has always put the car at the center. So by putting the pedestrian first, you create these livable places, I think, with more attraction and interest and character. "

" That's called a microphone. It's a big sausage that picks up everything you say - and you're starting early. "

" We are not the technology. It should be our - you know, our slave, the technology. But it's rapidly becoming our master in many areas, I think. "

" As you may possibly have noticed from time to time, I have tended to make a habit of sticking my head above the parapet and generally getting it shot off for pointing out what has always been blindingly obvious to me. "

" 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. "

" All the time I feel I must justify my existence. "

" Congratulations to 'Countdown' - it was an evening I will never forget - and a special thank you to Molly Meldrum. "

" I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability. "

" I'm not very good at being a performing monkey. "

" 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. "

" There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something. "

" 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. "

" Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth. "

" It's always marvelous to have somebody who, you know, you feel understands and wants to encourage. "