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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, 10 June 1921 – 9 April 2021) was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II. He was the longest-serving, oldest-ever spouse of a reigning British monarch, and the oldest-ever male member of the British royal family.
Also known as: Duke of Edinburgh, Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip
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It follows then that whatever the moral reasons for conservation it will only be achieved by the inducement of profit or pleasure.
The Environmental Revolution: Speeches on Conservation, 1962–77 (1978)
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.
Even the most unsympathetic and unenlightened politician, industrialist or bureaucrat begins to take notice when a lot of people write about the same subject.
Do you still throw spears at each other?
I declare this thing open, whatever it is.
What’s the matter with these people? Can’t they see what’s good for them?
Ah good, there's so many over there you feel they breed them just to put in orphanages.
If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.
How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?
In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, to contribute something to solving overpopulation.
You can't have been here that long—you haven't got a pot belly.
If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed.
Aren't most of you descended from pirates?
Just take the thing! Just take the fucking picture!
I suspect that the single most important gift of progress to conservation has been the development of human contraception techniques.
Do you know they're now producing eating dogs for the anorexics?
Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf.
It is no longer sufficient simply to quantify the elements of existence as in old-fashioned material economics; conservation means taking notice of the quality of existence as well...
The Environmental Revolution: Speeches on Conservation, 1962–77 (1978)
Well, you'll never fly in it, you're too fat to be an astronaut.
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