"About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all."
"No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people."
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Source: What We Can Learn From Animals by Rita Mae Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
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