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Work I got paid for: Medicine, Molecular Biology, soap and lotion making (really!)
Work I kind of got paid for: Breeding Border Collies (the best dogs in the world), teaching Latin to homeschooled kids (grades 3-12)
Work I never got paid for but loved: Farming, homeschooling, raising a family
First SE site I found: EL&U
For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
― T.S. Eliot
Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.
What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.
― Edward Sapir, Language: an Introduction to the Study of Speech
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