"We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!"

-- R. Lee Ermey

#Inspirational Quotes #Funny Quotes #Graduation Quotes

“Freedom of the will is a psychological fiction.”

Source : Louis Berkhof (1996). “Systematic Theology”, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“This is my life, these are my songs, this is my time and I'm ready.”

Source : Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.
“To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.”
“I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science, however, gives me the feeling of steady progress: I am convinced that theoretical physics is actual philosophy. It has revolutionized fundamental concepts, e.g., about space and time (relativity), about causality (quantum theory), and about substance and matter (atomistics), and it has taught us new methods of thinking (complementarity) which are applicable far beyond physics.”
“I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.”
“What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.”

Source : "Richard Rorty. What made him a crucial American philosopher?" by Stephen Metcalf, www.slate.com. June 18, 2007.
“As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.' William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes trial was a tragedy. The creationists and intelligent design theorists are a farce.”
“I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.”

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