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«It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.»

Author: Anita Brookner (Author, Historian) | Keywords: Aesop, contention, contentions, hares, tortoise, tortoises

«The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.»

Author: John Major | Keywords: beat, hare, long run, requirement, stamina, tortoise, tortoises

«Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.»

Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay | Keywords: parrots, redwood, redwoods, tortoises

«We called him Tortoise because he taught us.»

Author: Lewis Carroll (Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer) | Keywords: taught, tortoise, tortoises

«You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.»

Author: Terry Pratchett (Writer) | Keywords: infidels, The Infidels, tortoise, tortoises, trample

«But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.»

Author: Terry Pratchett (Writer) | Keywords: cruder, selections, tortoises

«These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind, / And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.»

Author: Bible | Keywords: chameleon, chameleons, creep, creeping, ferret, mole, moles, snail, snails, The Lizard, The Mole, tortoise, tortoises, unclean, weasel, weasels

«Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will.»

Author: Bhagavad Gita | Keywords: at will, draw, draws, draw in, even as, limbs, tortoise, tortoises

«Fish, tortoises, and birds bring up their young by means of sight, attention and touch; so do saintly men afford protection to their associates by the same means.»

Author: Chanakya (Politician, strategist, Writer) | Keywords: afforded, associates, associating, birds, tortoises

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