Eric Pianka Quotes

The biggest enemy we face is anthropocentrism. This is that common attitude that everything on this Earth was put here for human use.

Eric Pianka

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• It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

  

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• I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.

  

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• Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

  

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• The biggest compliments I've heard about 'That Metal Show' are the ones from people that say that they don't even listen to this kind of music, but, 'We love watching the show.'

  

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• Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

  

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• A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.

  

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• If economists were to wait for careful studies before offering opinions about policy, we would never have anything timely to say.

  

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• I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely.

  

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• I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.

  

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• I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Up
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• I'm supporting the School for Creative Startups because the project's ambition - to boost innovation and the culture of entrepreneurship - is something I feel strongly about.

  

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• If you come on my property, I've got you from the second that you enter on. There's little lasers... my TVs come on in my room and fall just right on you. So, there's no way to sneak up on me. And I've got a loud dog.

  

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• Planned Parenthood 'is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism – everything that the Bible condemns.' (The 700 Club, variously dated as 9 Apr. 1991 or 14 Jan. 1991).

  

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• I gathered that the old fellow suffers from some advanced form of senile dementia, and so perhaps his analysis is not totally accurate.

  

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• Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.

  

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• If I limit myself to knowledge that I consider true beyond doubt, I minimize the risk of error but I maximize, at the same time, the risk of missing out on what may be the subtlest, most important and most rewarding things in life.

  

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• People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.

  

  Willa Cather
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• Praying as a public function, particularly when led by a clergyman, is a vulgar display of an exclusively personal matter.

  

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• Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

  

  Anita Diamant
  • Life
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• The biggest enemy we face is anthropocentrism. This is that common attitude that everything on this Earth was put here for human use.

  

  Eric Pianka
  • Earth
  • Enemy
  • Attitude