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Question
List any two things that animals do and humans don't.
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Solution
Animals are peaceful and happy. They have wisdom. They never lack happiness and do not require material possessions. They continue to be unaffected by their happiness or suffering.
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Animals I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d -Walt Whitman |
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