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"Some girls are funny.  Some girls are not." -- Molly Schafer, 3 years old



"The notion that thought can be perfectly or even adequately expressed in verbal symbols is idiotic."
                                                                                                      -- Alfred North Whitehead



Writing/Speaking for Premed

Sociology


Writing for CSD

Thesis Writing in the Sciences

Writing in the Health Professions

ENG 1001

"Wherever a process of life communicates an eagerness to him [or her] who lives it, there the life becomes genuinely significant.  Sometimes the eagerness is more knit up in motor activities, sometimes with the perceptions, sometimes with the imagination, sometimes with reflective thought.  But, wherever it is found, there is the zest, the tingle, the excitement of reality; and there is importance in the only real and positive sense in which importance ever anywhere can be."                                                                    
                                                                                                                                            --William James

"Most professionals do not enjoy writing; rather, we like having written.  We like having completed a project.  We like having something finally published.  But we do not like what we have to do to get there."                            --Catherine Coffin, 2001, 71

"Surely, the object of a university training is not so much the acquisition of knowledge as the development of the power to think."                                                                                                    --Woodford, 1967, 327

" 'Where are you going?' asks a bird, flying by.  'I don't know," says Megan, 'but we'll get there soon.' "

                                                                                                                             -- (A Dragon in a Wagon)

"My wish is to work so unassailably that one could let one's worst instincts go unanalyzed, not to revolutionize nor to reform, but to enjoy life out loud." - Arthur Dove


Other favorite Molly quotes:
"It's hard to be four."  -- Molly Schafer, nearly four years old
"It's Christmas time! Light the Menorah!"
"Mommy, it takes a long time for pretend people to turn real."

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