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One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.
Terry Pratchett / Author
One Day
Small Gods
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Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.
Khalil Gibran / Poet
Hares
Speed
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I`m the tortoise in the race, but I`m a joyful tortoise.
Jeb Bush / Former Governor Of Florida
Joyful
Race
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Slow and steady wins the race. 'The hare and the tortoise
Robert Lloyd / Bass
Race
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The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.
Kurt Vonnegut / Writer
Art
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We live in a culture full of hares; but the tortoise always wins.
Dave Ramsey / Author
Culture
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One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare.
Clement Greenberg / Essayist
Art
Recognition
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A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.
J. K. Rowling / Novelist
Jewels
Shells
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We're the tortoise that has outrun the hare because it chose the easy predictions.
Charlie Munger / Business Person
Easy
Predictions
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The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.
Benjamin Disraeli / Former Leader Of The House Of Commons
Ought
Stags
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I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
Sappho / Lyric Poet
Music
Shells
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I eat like a tortoise eats, if you've ever seen a tortoise eating. Like some prehistoric swamp thing.
R. J. Palacio / Graphic Designer
Eating
Swamps
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In there?' She nodded. 'You want us to go into the tortoise?' Another nod. 'It's alive.' Another nod.
Ilona Andrews / Novelist
Alive
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Want
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Democrats are like a big tortoise that's on its back and can't get up; you can't make jokes about that.
Lewis Black / Comedian
Bigs
Get Up
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Democrats
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He stepped forward, took a deep breath, and doubled over in a sneezing fit. My werewolf was allergic to tortoises. Why me?
Ilona Andrews / Novelist
Sneezing
Tortoises
Why Me
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The tortoise moves very slowly, it moves towards whatever the goal is, to keep a democratic capitalistic society functioning.
Lewis Black / Comedian
Goal
Moving
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The predicament of a person in a restaurant who is unable to determine his or her designated restroom (e.g., turtles and tortoises).
Rich Hall / Comedian
Humorous
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The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.
Northrop Frye / Literary Critic
Fables
Tire
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It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the magus to drag him along.
Megan Whalen Turner / Writer
Enough
Race
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He was, she reflected, almost rudely like a tortoise; and she was glad her friend kept none as pets or they might have suspected mockery.
Stella Gibbons / Author
Pet
Might
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You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
Chinua Achebe / Novelist
Men
Tortoises
Trouble
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The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see anything worldly any longer, he makes peace in himself.
B.k.s. Iyengar / Teacher
Doe
Sleep
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When I first heard bands like Tortoise, it seemed to come off the back of that world, like let's make a record with three vibraphones and release it on a seven-inch with black-and-white artwork.
Kieran Hebden / Musician
Black And White
Firsts
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